Montaigne/Austen Essay

    "What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant."  This quote by David Foster Wallace wrote in his 2001 story "Good Old Neon". While comparing Montaigne and Austen the use of stream of consciousness is crucial, concluding Montaigne's techniques in fact do support Foster's notion and comparing the two authors they're are many differences but portraying the same process of thought.  

      The human brain is constantly creating, imagining, thinking and even forgetting thousands maybe even millions of ideas daily. These ideas could be outrageous or even practical but due to the amount of ideas we barely scratch the surface of our their  potential. Montaigne's essays were based on the concept of stream of consciousness which is allowing your thoughts to captivate a page without completely over analyzing it. Michel attacks both serious and non serious subjects with both openness, honesty and reality. Throughout his essays he holds nothing back and allows his ideas to jumble with the pages. There is no set form of writing with Montaigne and that's how he differs from Austen. 

     Jane Austen writes in a much more delicate matter other than Montaigne. She remains loyal to her style and themes in order to portray her story in a realistic light. Emotions are very significant in Jane's writing because they have a certain human truth to them to allow readers to connect on emotional and mental levels. Austen's writing involves natural thinking and emotions in Pride and Prejudice. 

       The major difference between these two authors that pertain to their style of writing is the difference in the time period. Montaigne's essays were published about 200 years prior to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 1813.  Despite the difference in the long time period, both authors were able to stay true to their writing style with no critiques. Montaigne's essays display with an enticing style of thought along with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that gives the audience a new sense of reality. So concluding these authors have a different approach to the way they write, are from two different time periods, the message of honesty, reality, and the natural process of thought is crystal clear.