How does Voltaire portray El Dorado (Ch 17-18)? How does it differ from 18 th C Europe, and what are the religious beliefs of the people? Why does Candide decide to leave? .25pt;”> In Candide you can...

How does

Voltaire portray El Dorado (Ch 17-18)? How does it differ from 18^th
C

Europe, and what are the religious beliefs of the people?


Why does Candide decide to leave?

.25pt;”>

He had gone through his

discipline twice, and the regiment being composed of 2,000 men, they composed

for him exactly 4,000 strokes, which laid bare all his muscles and nerves from

the nape of his neck to his stern As they were preparing to make him set out

the third time our young hero, unable to support it any longer, begged as a

favor that they would be so obliging as to shoot him through the head; his

request being granted, a bandage was tied over his eyes, and he was made to

kneel down”