What is the narrator’s purpose in writing these “confessions”? How do you know?
The narrator wants to use these “confessions” as a look back at his own life and to alter how society and other people perceive him. By reading the book, I was able to determine the narrator’s motivations as “confessions” is an autobiography of his life that was released after his passing. The enlightenment is still being embraced by people in the 18th century, albeit it is not yet fully accepted. Because the narrator is Catholic and holds religious beliefs, he wrote about his own personal life in all of its details. In this situation, he is confessing his wrongdoing and asking for forgiveness to everyone. As an illustration, he had a difficult childhood, no mother, and is involved in adultery with a mistress in the novel. Overall, the book is depressing and details his miserable life and poor decisions. In order to relieve the burden of his guilt via confession or religious belief, he gave his book the title “confessions” and included all of his transgressions as well as his life’s accomplishments in it.
