Philosophical Underpinning: Alexander Pope Whenever religion is “put on the table” there are likely two outcomes that can play out. Either people evade the conversation completely, in order to not start heated debates, or it can have the opposite effect. People would clamor to say their belief is just. The same can be said when it comes to the power of God(s) or lack of. Individuals on one hand would say God works in mysterious ways and those ways cannot be questioned. Others would say, with all that supposed power God has, why disasters happen to people, especially good people who do not deserve it. Long has this debate gone for centuries with both sides in a stalemate.
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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
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