When writing you can never write as fast as you can think and there is always that subject that you can't nearly find the words for. As a matter of fact, human brains hold an intellectual capacity that isn't nearly reached through the expressions of words. Depicted in the story, Good Old Neon by David Foster Wallace he states, "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." David Foster Wallace similar to Montaigne in The Complete Essays of Michel De Montaigne find this same idea in that they simply can't always find the words to infringe deep enough into matters of life. Montaigne's style supports the claim through the emphasis of the stream of conscience in that things have to be implied in order to be understood. However, the intellectual influence of Montaigne greatly differs from that of Jane Austen's in the novel Pride and Prejudice due to her use of third person limited in the confines of her novel. The language for interpretation to the audience is even more limited with the words expressed in Jane Austen's novel in comparison to Montaignes where ideas are fluid and continuous.
In the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen the third person limited limits readers to only one set of ideas where as in the novel The Complete Essays of Michel De Montaigne by Montaigne the readers are given so many outlets and directions to think that they aren't able to think for themselves. As David Foster Wallace implys is that there isn't ever a way to tell everyone what you are thinking or feeling because there isn't enough words to encapsulate it. Due to these ideas Jane Austen gives her readers their own minds to think through where Montaigne only gives his. Through this we find that the emotional draw to Montaigne's essays are a lot dryer to the reader than an enhanced story where you can infer your own possibilities. In this we also find the emotional connections are merged with characters in Pride and Prejudice and aren't in Montaignes essays becuase he lacks straightforward intellectual thought.
In Montaigne's essays it is easy to find ways in which he encompasses the literal aspect of what David Foster Wallace is saying with the driect links with reason put behind his words. However, unlike Austen's work it challenges your mind to newer questions, but it doesn't let you encompas the journey. In Austen's novel she includes more emotion than logic (stream of conscience) because it causes the audience to react and enjoy rather than be told what to think. Logic also can only forgo a persons mind before they lose interest and want to move on to something that is exciteing.
As the ideas of David Foster Wallace are important to the main concepts of Montaigne's The Complete Essays of Michel De Montaigne theys strongly differ from Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice through logic and emotional ties to the characters of each piece of literature. As the mind can't obstain or explain everything the body feels it is necessary that the reader is able to read between lines without being told what to think. Therefore inplying that although Wallace and Montaigne agree on the formulation of the mind it is evident that Austen knows that you can only feel emotions and connections when you aren't given the whole story, but only bits and pieces with the rest to uncover in the depths of your own mind.
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