The Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Analysis

The autobiography, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, provides a vivid insight into the complicated, yet exhilarating, life of Rousseau. The beginning of his life was filled with misfortunes, such as the death of his mother which was quickly followed by a distraught and self-sabotaging attitude which his father adopted. This led to his father’s involvement in illegal behaviors and the subsequent abandonment of Rousseau. His mother’s death was the catalyst for his journey to meet multiple women who would later affect his life greatly. The Influence of Miss Lamberciers, Madame Basile, Countess de Vercellis, and Madam de Warens on the impressionable adolescent mind of Rousseau led to the positive cultivation of self-discovery and the creation of new experiences, as well as the development of inappropriate sexual desires and attachments towards women. After the death of his mother and his father’s absence, Rousseau met his second maternal figure, Miss Lamberciers, whose existence sparked a perverse nature from within him. After moving in with his uncle, Rousseau was sent to a village called Bossey to learn Latin from a local pastor named M. Lamberciers. While in his care, Rousseau met the pastor’s wife, Miss Lamberciers, who later became a type of mother figure for him. She would reprimand him when she felt necessary, and instead of regarding her punishments with anger, he began to experience them with sexual delight. “Who would believe this childish discipline,