During which historical period did montaigne live? roman empire ancient greece renaissance middle ages

It was the renaissance period

Michel de Montaigne was born in February 1533 and died in September 1592, He was one of the most important philosophers of the French Renaissance a cultural and artistic movement placed between the 15th and 17th centuries, thanks to writers like Montaigne the Scepticism and Pyrrhonism reappeared. The answer is renaissance.

sorry but whats the question?

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.