Augustine Confessions and Rousseau Confessions Literature Essay

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Augustine Confessions and Rousseau Confessions
Questions 1
In Rousseau's Confessions, early childhood education is vital in teaching and developing the characters of children. He believes giving a child a chance to express themselves helps them grow naturally and develop as free-thinking children. Realization of a child's full potential is accepted to be associated with a constraint-free society. If the community does not limit the child, the child develops full potential both morally and educationally. An excellent example of this is when the author gets forced by his uncle, Bernard, to work in a profession he had least expected. The people around the author barely allow him to make his own decisions. They choose careers, jobs, like uncle Bernard and what the author should learn. According to the author, he has deep ambition in studying Latin, History, and Antiques but his father and uncle take him to work in something different. He says working in the new place for long had resulted in his degeneration to a point where his father cannot consider his as his own "When I went to see my father, he no longer treated as his idle" (Rousseau 14). He loses value even before friends. The people that the author is forced to associate with are all limiting factors to his life. For instance, his master is vicious and temperamental; therefore, the author gets freaked out when doing things independently or against his master's will. This is seen when the author receives taught about fake and genuine money by his master. The tone that the master uses is condescending, and some patronizing effect can be felt around the author.
Question 2
In St. Augustine's confessions, St. Augustine finds answers and explanations to the long meek antisocial behavior that was common with him during his childhood years. At this time, he understands the constant wailings, solemnity, and introvert-like action of his early ages. When St Augustine was young, he had desires that felt like no human could understand, including his parents. He kept his passions in his heart and muttered them as wishes. At times, St. Augustine felt like he had people who could fulfill his dreams, but then his feelings turned to be futile, "Little by little, I began to be aware where I was and wanted to manifest my wishes to those who could fulfill them as I could not" (Chadwick 35). When he failed to achieve his desires, he would weep for being misunderstood or considered a threat to society because of his dreams. This made him alienate himself with the adults to find people with whom he could rhyme with.
Question 3
In The Pillow, the judiciary and the community have been vividly described, especially the occasions that precede court proceedings. Sei is a keen, gentlewoman who works under Empress Teishi's court. She keeps diaries of how people wore during and any other personal musings that she found interesting. She bases her writings on the community at large, where she studies the games, festivals, and Japanese social outlook. She describes the two classes-the rich and the poor in the empire and the way of life. In religion, Sei represents the shrines and pilgrimages of the Japanese and the religious journey that e...