OF DEATH (Francis Bacon) - Critical Appreciation
Brevity, directness, and wit are the main qualities that Bacon’s essays contain. The systematic way of writing makes Bacon’s essays move from one point to another logically. Moreover, the subject-matter he discusses in his writing is based on the real life and the reader finds an epigrammatic wisdom in it. With the use of metaphors, similes referring to various historical stories makes his essay comprehensible and agreeable.
This essay is the reflection of Bacon’s wisdom and experience that he acquired during the life. Bacon reinforces his arguments with the use of metaphors, similes, and quotation from wise and famous philosophers. The essay comprises aphoristic sentences that engage the readers. Bacon attempts to give the readers a nerve to face the death by arguing that the actual pain of death is not as much as we think about it. The essay begins with a simile of death and darkness and the similarity in the fear that is associated with both. He argues that death is not so horrifying as it appears to be. However, mourns and groans of the dying person along with the weeping and harsh expression of his dear and near ones makes the sight of death horrifying.
Bacon also argues about the people who are under the strong influence of love, revenge and grief. To such people, death doesn’t appear to be terrifying. Bacon mentions few Roman emperors who faced the death with valor, courage, and bravery. He after arguing about the terrifying side of the death mentions that the death has a bright side, too. It is only after the death of a person that he is appraised and his good deeds are remembered. All the envy and bitterness vanishes with the death.
By reading the essay we not only come across Bacon’s rich thoughts about the death but also find some distinctive fictitious qualities in the essay. He by the use of simile makes his meaning more clear that a man who dies for serving his nation or for any other earnest cause is just like a young soldier who is wounded in the hot blood.
Of Death is an argumentative essay by Francis Bacon in which he argues about the positive aspects of death. One has to die either today or tomorrow. So it is better to die courageously and bravely so that you can win people’s appraisal. The essay, Of Death, is full of the richness of content and meaning. It is also Bacon’s model of concise and eloquent prose, just like all other essays.
This essay is the reflection of Bacon’s wisdom and experience that he acquired during the life. Bacon reinforces his arguments with the use of metaphors, similes, and quotation from wise and famous philosophers. The essay comprises aphoristic sentences that engage the readers. Bacon attempts to give the readers a nerve to face the death by arguing that the actual pain of death is not as much as we think about it. The essay begins with a simile of death and darkness and the similarity in the fear that is associated with both. He argues that death is not so horrifying as it appears to be. However, mourns and groans of the dying person along with the weeping and harsh expression of his dear and near ones makes the sight of death horrifying.
Bacon also argues about the people who are under the strong influence of love, revenge and grief. To such people, death doesn’t appear to be terrifying. Bacon mentions few Roman emperors who faced the death with valor, courage, and bravery. He after arguing about the terrifying side of the death mentions that the death has a bright side, too. It is only after the death of a person that he is appraised and his good deeds are remembered. All the envy and bitterness vanishes with the death.
By reading the essay we not only come across Bacon’s rich thoughts about the death but also find some distinctive fictitious qualities in the essay. He by the use of simile makes his meaning more clear that a man who dies for serving his nation or for any other earnest cause is just like a young soldier who is wounded in the hot blood.
Of Death is an argumentative essay by Francis Bacon in which he argues about the positive aspects of death. One has to die either today or tomorrow. So it is better to die courageously and bravely so that you can win people’s appraisal. The essay, Of Death, is full of the richness of content and meaning. It is also Bacon’s model of concise and eloquent prose, just like all other essays.
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