Montaigne/Austen Essay
Everybody writes differently and has their different perspective on things. Austen and Montaigne have contradictory styles of writing. Austen’s is organized while Montaigne is free thinking. Each of their styles is portrayed throughout their novels.
Montaigne’s writes what he thinks and that goes along with the idea of the stream of consciousness. He is very complicated and that supports Foster’s notion that “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.” He was very scattered and therefore writes very unorganized. Montaigne often goes from topic to topic never fully creating characters.
Austen, on the other hand, planned out her story. She created details and developed characters in full depth. Her riding was easier to read and follow unlike Montaigne’s writing which I had a hard time following at times. The vivid descriptions throughout her novel makes reading it much easier to picture and to come to your own conclusion.
All in all, Montaigne wrote what he thought and Austen organized and planned her story line. Between the two novels I enjoyed reading Pride and Prejudice much more than reading Montaigne’s novel.
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