Jean Jacques Rousseau Confessions

“Feelings takes possession of my soul more rapidly than a flash of lightning; but, instead of illuminating, inflames and dazzles me.” (Rousseau 1634) Rousseau embarks on a path never before travelled to enlighten the truth of romanticism in the lives of many. From the reading “Confessions” Rousseau begins by sharing a past which has many mixed emotions due to the fact of abandonment of a father, the death of a mother, and the desire to escape at an early age. The reading will take readers on a rollercoaster ride filled with passion, pain, and emotions. In essence, the principles of romanticism that reflected the most in the reading are nature, emotions, and imagination.
Nature is full of mysteries and unpredictable discoveries yet to occur. As a child, there is still very much to learn from the world. One must go through varies experiences in order to feel new desires, love, hatred and so forth. Rousseau goes through many hardships at a very early stage in life which begins to create a whirlwind of emotions. The feeling of embarrassment of urinating in public to being beaten by a nanny so frequently that one begins to desire it as a sexual introduction to adulthood. “Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the
Rousseau made it clear that everyone was with the ability to feel sensation in which can be affected by the outside world in ways one can only imagine. As soon as the sensations are discovered, people will attempt to avoid any objects that may have any affect, but only at first. Later curiosity will begin to have an impact and people then begin to seek for what is suitable. The world begins to found the reason to pursue such sensations in order to achieve true happiness. The way that the body and mind incline and feel the pressure of habit is