Essay #2

            “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 is from David Foster Wallaces story "Good Old Neon" accurately states how the world is just too big and wide for an individual’s mind to create a single notion of that covers everything in it. This being said this quote is precisely supported by Montaigne’s Techniques and styles in that it completely understands how infinite the world is and is why he goes out by writing a single essay on each individual subject to better understand it all. The Author Jane Austen and Montaigne share similar styles in getting there information across quite effectively such by planning and riveted examples as well having a stream of consciousness in both selections at hand. These comparisons are a few of the reasons you can gaze into Montaigne’s thinking even though they came about after his great feats in life.

               One could possibly argue that both Wallace’s quote and Montaigne’s master pieces are both random in the sense that you never know where it’s going to go but in truth you can tell which direction they lead and instead that they both understand that the world is to infinite for a single grouping of words to give it meaning. Therefor Montaigne solves this by keeping the self through stream of consciousness in the small grouping of words and focuses on a single property of the world’s infiniteness at a time so that once all properties are collected they can be used to thoroughly explain it all. This being examined explains why Montaigne takes the time to explain every element of the world’s infiniteness and create a clearer picture of his style.

               Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” incorporates similar styles of Montaigne’s Essays that draw a vibrant depiction of Montaigne’s style. Both of these works are supposed to have no actual direction and more sudden to the readers but in actuality both works are carefully thought out and just seem that way because there is a never ending use of stream of consciousness. There seems to be a misconception that there is a distinction between the two works because of the layout of both but they just bring about small details and example in slightly different ways.

               The comparison of both Wallace’s quote and “Pride and Prejudice” to Montaigne’s style draw an elaborate picture of it to explain why he wrote the mass quantity of essays when looking at Wallace’s quote and assuming that he thought the same way to come up with the necessity to explain each element of the earth’s infiniteness in depth. Then when looking at “Pride and Prejudice” it helps explain why Montaigne wrote with great example and always thought of what was to come next even though when seen by the naked eye you can’t tell it has any real direction at all.