¶ … Man" intended to present a set of ethical and moral rules that would help a man vindicate the ways of God instead of criticizing the same. It was written in the neoclassical tradition which favored reason over blind passion and emotional restraint over Renaissance obsession with excessive expression. It is more in line with John Milton's Paradise Lost where theme and central Christian beliefs are concerned. While "Essay on man" may not be inherently Christian, it does promote ancient Christian assumption that man sinned once and the burden of that original sin stays with man throughout his life. For this reason, he needs to work even harder to exonerate himself and achieve salvation.
The most controversial line in the Essay claims that "one truth is clear, 'Whatever IS, is RIGHT'" (I. 1.294). This line appears to suggest that morality and ethical rules are useless, since whatever happens for example, rape, kidnapping, killings etc. are right. But this is not exactly what Pope meant. Even though it appears controversial at first, when read in the context of the entire poem, it becomes clear that Pope only wanted to promote the neoclassical belief that man should discipline himself by exercising restraint and applying his intellectual powers. In the line as well, Pope was only advocating the reasoning that God has a master's plan according to which everything that happens in this world, happens for a reason. Pope accepts that life is not free of pain or suffering in fact he only encourages us to understand and accept God's plans as wiser and more beneficial despite all the pain we experience:
But errs not nature from this gracious end,
From burning suns when livid deaths descend,
When earthquakes swallow, or when tempest sweep
Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? (I. ll. 140-143)
Alexander Pope was the leading representative of the Augustan era in literature. This was the section of neoclassicist movement that started in early 1700s and ended in 1750s. Neoclassicism in literature referred to the movement that developed as a reaction...
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