Montaigne’s essays

 
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Montaigne’ Essays

In Montaigne essays, the author always seeks to actually draw a path mainly for its clients to knowledge rather than apply a human logic towards achieving a form of higher level of reason and thinking. The way memory is applied and treated with various arguments always differs from authors and this is just reflective of the views of ultimate human knowledge. 
Montaigne’s utilization of memory and views are different from other authors hence making his essays more less like such traditional autobiography conception. Montaigne's form of arguments, in turn, tends to actually take on such characteristics of a scientific research. This is in the sense that he logically thinks all the possibilities of a question and develops well-known sources from literature or history as justifications and examples for his conclusion (de Montaigne). This is explained by his assertion that normally experience is more sufficient to actually instruct us always in what we all need as well as his hostility to such notions of adopting other’s opinions and ideas. Montaigne’s traditional approach towards his autobiography can hence be explained and analyzed by his own letter to his readers. He goes to state that he is a substance of his book. He is actually a kind of a person inscribed firmly in the pages rather than Montaigne's history is the main substance. The book or novel is a representation of such thought processes supported by such randomness of the given subject matter.
Montaigne way of writing was to involve and intrigue the reader. While he was writing these kinds of essays, his main objective was to describe himself and a man with honesty. He is actually intrigued by such volatility and a great variety of the human nature. He goes to say he has actually never such a great miracle or monster than himself. He explains his skepticism, disgust, and pessimism for the conflict between Catholics and Protestants at the time. He actually veers away by refusing to repent while believing that he cannot change himself in some sense even as he develops a unique and different way of portraying the truth about himself (Mijolla). The way he talks offers such an identity which can challenge the adamant repressive mechanisms of state and church in Europe. Nonetheless, his ambivalence to confession actually stemmed from his own anthropology while his belief that we are actually not easily transformed broke the Christian idealism of Catholics and Protestants who insist on grace and faith. Montaigne's own ability to actually describe himself was such an exercise of sincerity which did not actually conform to power but challenged it. His understanding of his own identity as well as his approach towards self-revelation was in turn connected to his cosmopolitanism and compassion as well as his hate for violence, witch-trials and of torture unleashed on Calvinists and Catholics. Through his essay, one can clearly describe him as a champion of the human rights. 
Nonetheless, Montaigne converts to Christianity and embraces the Catholic faith while declining to speculate historical causes which made him turn to God. These essays by Montaigne have such capacity to actually renew philosopher's form of understanding of oneself. This is made possible through the use of the given styles as relativism, skepticism and eventually focuses on such common situations and conditions which occur ordinarily to any kind of individual (de Montaigne). The author's analysis of the given situations allows him to have such clear understanding of himself. The author's language seems to actually reflect on openness, expression, and sincerity to ideas which constituted such a powerful countercurrent in such a culture which is characterized by dissimulation. The different between Montaigne and other authors are in the way he actually expresses his life.
The author's language use is quite familiar and he does not focus on theological wrong or right of his views.in turn, he writes more about life as he gets in a form of non-doctrinal spirit. He does not speak of his own life as before salvation as well as the sins he had engaged in which apparently affected him. He only comments on his habits as greedily eating to almost biting his fingers and tongue. He depicts this actions, not as a way of his confession but to engage is readers and set aside such pretense as well as attitudinizing of the other sinner's act. He does all this to give such an unvarnished image of his life attitudes and experiences of his mind. He takes inventory of his life in various stings and different moments helping him to get something fixed. He, however, did not believe in confessions especially in the traditional religious sense which could lose the gap between one's public and interior life.
From Montaigne review, the structure of his text is always influenced by some of the arguments made all over through text. When the structure of this text in turn conflicts with such views expresses than the writer would actually have no credibility. Various authors implement a different form of autobiography styles towards gaining more credibility as well as strengthening an argument.
Works Cited

de Montaigne, Michel. The Complete Essays of Montaigne. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1958.
Mijolla, E. Autobiographical quests: Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau, and Wordsworth. . University of Virginia Press, 1994.