A New Point Of View

Candide and Cacambo have arrived to a strange place. They are in a place where “The roads are crowded, or rather adorned, with carriages, magnificent in appearance and material, drawn by huge red sheep…” (Pg 74). They have arrived to a great place where children are wearing and playing with gold.

They assume the children playing with gold are from the royal family. This is a great example of stereotype, just because the children have gold nuggets they are from the royal family. OK, if I were with them I would assume the same they have. We then see Candide, with a tone of being completely astonished, say “The children of the Kings of this country must be well brought up, if they are taught to despise gold and precious stones.” (Pg 75) We now see how Candide, representing our modern society (in that time European society), cant believe a thing like gold is being thrown away. He is in disbelief with what he is seeing. They are use too believing that gold is precious wile the people they are seeing might see gold in a different perspective. Candide is just surprised to see that some people don’t think the same he does.