ze is to learn how to die" he compares the span of human lives to the span of mountains and rivers, as well as to insects whose lives lasts a single day. Carnal aspects influence even the general fear of death humans' feel. "I truly believe that what frightens us more than death it self are those terrifying grimaces and preparation with which we surround it" (35). At times it seems as if he was writing in a state of frenzy because of human's ignorance of the insignificance issues they deem to be significant when compared to the powers of nature. His frustrations make him scold us in the place of Mother Nature. "Why do you complain of me or of Destiny?? Do we do you wrong? Should you govern us or should we govern you?" (35). He struggles to let us see that purity lies in nature, and when we rid ourselves of materialistic bonds, our fear of death, which is a duty of nature to give us, will also fade, setting us free. Montaigne begins his essay "That we taste nothing pure" with the statement "The imbecility of our condition is such that things cannot, in their natural simplicity and purity, fall into our use". In where his "sophisticated" society fails however, Montaigne finds refuge in the native people of Brazil. In "On Cannibals", he shows a more precise example of what he is proposing for his own society when he talks of "pureness". He compares these natives, which he finds so amazing and pure, to "fruits wild when then are produced by Nature in her ordinary course" (82). He is hungry for knowledge at the society they live in, which is the society he believes to be ideal, "they are governed by the laws of nature" (83). The pure ignorance which they live, is what Montaigne urges his own society to have. To not know the meaning of fear in battle. To have a simple set of morals that involves only the necessity. He is able to defend these 'savages' whom practice cannibalismThroughout his writing, he constantly uses examp...
