He also reveals his relationships with women. He talks about embarrassing experiences of his life, and his entry into the world of adult sexuality. The ideas of Rousseau embedded in the book ‘Confessions’ are profound and holds analyses of his feelings in his early days. While Rousseau declares that the main intent of his book is self-exploration, Pope begins with the declaration that man is in the world according to a plan. John! leave all meaner things / …./ Let us (since life can little more supply / Than just to look about us, and to die)/ Expatriate free o’er all this scene of man /A mighty maze! but not without a plan ” (1-3). Pope begins by including the reader in his analytic thinking on the nature of man and life: “Awake, my St. Rousseau says: “I propose to set before my fellow-mortals a man in all the truth of nature and this man shall be myself”.
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