The Legend of El Dorado - The Lost City of Gold

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Index • The Origins of El Dorado • Gold and Greed- the search for El Dorado • El Dorado in Candide- what does it represent

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The Origins of El Dorado

• a mythical tribal chief of the Muisca native people of Colombia

• the tribal ceremony

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Gold and Greed -the search for El Dorado

• long before any legend of “golden men” or “lost cities” had appeared…

• in pursuit of the legend…

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Gold and Greed -the search for El Dorado

• Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Northtern Brazil

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Would you like to live in a place like El Dorado?

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El Dorado in Candide the perfect world

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What does El Dorado represent

• “best of all possible worlds”

• “man is not born to be idle”

• the impossibility of utopian dreams

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References

Cooper, Jago. "El Dorado: The Truth behind the Myth." BBC News. BBC News, 14 Jan. 2013. Web. 07 Dec. 2016. <http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20964114>

Drye, Willie. "El Dorado Legend -- National Geographic." National Geographic. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2016. <http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/el-dorado/>

Hopkins, Matt. "El Dorado: A True "Utopia"" El Dorado: A True “Utopia”. World Literature, 24 Feb. 2012. Web. 05 Dec. 2016. <http://imaginingtheworld.blogspot.tw/2012/02/el-dorado-true-utopia.html>

M R Reese. "The Search for El Dorado – Lost City of Gold." Ancient Origins. Ancient Origins, 06 Jan. 2015. Web. 03 Dec. 2016. <http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/search-el-dorado-lost-city-gold-002535?page=0%2C1>

TheBestNotes.com Staff. "TheBestNotes on Candide". TheBestNotes.com. 10 May. 2008. Web. 06 Dec. 2016. <http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Candide_Voltaire/Candide_Study_Guide13.html>.

"The Significance Of The Dorado Sequence Literature Essay." UKessays.com. Nov 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2016. <https://www.ukessays.com/essays/literature/the-significance-of-the-dorado-sequence-literature-essay.php?cref=1>.

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