The correct answer is D) hopelessly overwhelmed.
These lines of Pope’s “An Essay on Man” represent human being as hopelessly overwhelmed.
The representation of a human being hoplessly overwhelmed is described in the lines of the excerpt. “In doubt to act/ or rest”; it shows indecision. “In doubt to deem himself a God or beast”; it shows confusion. “Burn but to die, and reasoning but to err”; it shows the tiredness that makes him hopelessly overwhelmed.
Alexander Pope published the poem “An Essay on Man” in 1733. The poem tries to clear God’s way to the human being and its natural order.
