Characteristics of Bacon’s Essays

·         Serious, imbalanced, straight forwarded, intellectual and sententious style.

·         Essays comprised numerous quotations.

·         Father of English prose. He avoided complexities.

·         Introduced his own structures.

·         Montague sympathized where Bacon never.

·         He discussed serious as well as trivial topics. Wrote 58 essays.

·         Aphoristic (maxims) and Proverbial style of writing.

·         In certain places he repeats his thoughts.

·         Often wrote in parallel paragraphs.

·         He showed renaissance capabilities in his writings.

·         Epigrammatic (Terse and witty and like a maxim) sententious style.

·         He often introduced contradictory ideas within a single essay.