This debate became prevalent when the study of science began to answer …show more content…
Having little formal education, Pope educated himself through extensive studying and reading, especially poetry. By 1700, his family moved out of London and settled in Binfield in Windsor Forest where over time Pope became very ill. Suffering from what we know now as Pott’s disease, or tuberculosis of the spine, Pope never grew taller than four feet six inches, not to mention the constant headaches on top of that. In addition to his “deformity”, Pope as well as his family, were ridiculed for being Catholic with the fall of King James II and the ascension of the Protestant rulers William III and Mary II. This also came with the prohibitions against openly practicing their Catholic faith and living within ten miles of the new protestant governed London, England. It was with these trials that helped Pope in not only his poetic verses but most importantly in his satirical writings as well (humor aimed at human …show more content…
Pope was the ideal candidate for such a piece as “Essay on Man” because here was a man who had faced much adversity; ill with disease and short stature, shunned for both his Catholic faith under a protestant rule and from his literary style of writing, yet the prestige level of English society. “Essay on Man” was more than just Pro-Religious writing but rather is was a wake-up call to its readers and their actions towards the subject of their faith. Done in the style in which Alexander Pope was best known