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Montaigne is incredibly influenced by imagination. In “Of The Power Of Imagination”, The essay opens up with the words “A strong imagination creates the events”,  in other words imagination can create reality. Most of this essay is a collection of stories proving that thesis. Montaigane points out situations during which imagination controlled illnesses, age, youth appearance, gender, and impotence. For instance, a great doctor discussed with him ways to cure his illness. Montaigne continues to discuss his stories that are factually questionable. He claims that he isn’t responsible for his stories, since he got them from others. He points out that they might be possible so if they’re actually true doesn’t matter. He also argues that he’s writing about the past, not the present. Montaigne’s imagination also comes from the essay, “Of experience”. Montaigne mentions the power of a person’s mind when he discusses his condition since he developed stones. He states that he rarely ever consults physicians on his health. He didn’t follow others with the same condition where they were either on a diet or taking medicinal drugs which were believed to be the cure but instead choosing to heal with his imagination. He strongly believes that healing is actually a matter of deceiving our minds.

In Montaigne’s Essays, Montaigne describes a variety of fears by narrating different stories. Fear is a surrendering emotion that can make people not only acting frantic but also fettering from moving. However, by comparing it to other emotion, it is the most powerful one. When fear throws us into despair, where we have nothing to lose, it makes us strong again. If we’re not afraid of fear, overcoming fear, then we could calmly deal with everything.

In Montaigne’s work, there are many different themes and ideas being describe and explained. One of the important themes that were discuss in his work is fear, which played a big part in animal life, especially human. Fear itself is a negative feeling that we human have, and also a key to many other negative actions, having great impact on our decisions. Which is also link to one of the other important explanation on idea of Montaigne’s, and one of them will be the ability of human imagination. With fear, we will have great number of imaginations. Which will be led to different physical illness and other mental disease. In Montaigne’s work, he also explains that there are people struggle through fear in their entire life, and make irrational decisions because of it.

Montaigne is a prominent writer during the French Renaissance and known for his work Essays. It captures some intellectual perspective of the world and shares some complex ideas about our identity. Montaigne goes over some different concepts in this book and one of the main ones is skepticism. He is known for the phrase, “What do I know?” which emphasizes his skepticism. One of his main beliefs is that humans are unable to obtain certainty. Montaigne shares that humans simply cannot put trust in our reasoning because thoughts are something that we cannot control as they just appear to us. Through this idea, he connects it to his skepticism on religion. He is skeptical considering the topic of religion but he shares that everyone needs to follow the same religious standards. In France, they should yield to the Catholic government. He states that everyone must be obedient to the ruler and stay in their place. Montaigne agrees with Plato that citizens needed to be ruled over so that they will follow the laws with no questions.

Montaigne presents vagueness while distinguishing imagination from reality in this essay. By practical and fantastical examples, Montaigne proves the power of imagination to interfere with reality. He narrates a tale of somebody who implements himself by the power of imagination in the belief of the executioner’s blow. He argues extreme visionary thinking likely to causes unanticipated events. In another example, Montaigne explains how a man catches impotence from his imagination out of fear of performing poorly. In confusing the difference between reality and imagination by mixing plain views with actual results, Montaigne urges the reader to review the relationship of fiction with imagination, and non-fiction with reality. The presentation of the interchangeability of these ideas plants a seed of doubt in the readers’ minds about the ability to control their actions. Possibly the presentation of these stories reflects Montaigne’s own insecurities because he claims that he borrows stories yet “the inferences are my own”. Each account of Montaigne’s is clearly meant at explaining the power of imagination as apparent from the title of this essay.

The Essays is a collection of philosophic arguments by the French Renaissance writer Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. As such, Montaigne makes a number of critical observations concerning sixteenth-century French society and proposes a number of suggestions by which individuals can improve themselves and avoid succumbing to certain corrupting influences. Montaigne touches on a large number of different topics from emotions to rationality, to good and bad governance and it would be impossible to go through them all at length here, but The Essays does have some recurring themes which pepper his work. One of the most prevalent themes in The Essays, to which Montaigne attaches a significant amount of emphasis, concerns the nature of knowledge. Montaigne is very critical of those members of elite French society who he believes have developed a mastery over words and flattery but for whom true knowledge is only a pipe dream.

Fear is a negative emotion that all animals have. In Montaigne’s essay, he exposes the fear of human nature and how frail when people dealing with fear. Montaigne addresses that fear is a strange emotion and he barely knows about it. Moreover, people tend to get lost and do silly things when confronted with fear. For example, soldiers are scared by the fear they imagine about wars rather than the enemies or the war itself and therefore run into the wrong direction. When fear dominates, judgment and courage vanish. The power of fear surpasses any other emotions. However, indeed, the real fear people fear of comes from themselves.

Montaigne is a philosophy of fear. In Montaigne’s Essays, Montaigne discusses fear in the form of emotions. I did a little research on Montaigne and it stated that he has a fear of death it also stated that it is impossible for him to enjoy life. Montaigne is the first person to discuss his fear. In his essay, he compares fear to life. Montaigne explained that someone died before being executed. With that, he feared something bad will happen next that could lead to his own death.

Throughout his essays, Montaigne re-tells different stories to convey the idea that our brain can control all of our physical reactions without the need to be touched. At the beginning of the essays, he tells the story of someone who died even before being executed. This person’s imagination went beyond and he feared so much what would happen to him next that he provoked his own death. This is the case for many humans since when we allow our mind to wander, depending on our thoughts this can provoke different physical reactions such as dizziness or nauseous when we are afraid. Montaigne tries to demonstrate that our brain is responsible for everything, including it own name and all our thoughts about it.

This book discovered a treasure trove of ideas that were enlightening to women — the virtues of women. They are not some external characteristics, such as age, appearance, origin, etc., nor is it an abstract concept, but a noble way of life, that is, through positive self-cultivation and improvement, to achieve the organic unity of personal excellence and social achievements. Before this moment, only a few men, including those who are humanists in the traditional sense, had ever given women such high recognition and expectations for human qualities. From this moment on, women, or at least those “noble women”, will probably have as many human virtues as men, and let these virtues guide their actions, thereby winning honor for themselves and benefiting others and the whole society.