Handwriting of famous people (34 photos)

Category: Stars, Famous people, Nostalgia, PEGI 0+

28 January 2014

Today I want to tell you about a science called graphology, which studies the individual characteristics of handwriting. What is most interesting is that experts in this field can tell a lot about a person by his handwriting. I suggest you look further at what graphology will tell us based on the handwriting of famous and famous personalities.

Franz Kafka

“This is the handwriting!” - you thought. That's right, the author of "Metamorphosis" did not have the most accurate writing style. And self-doubt, self-judgment and a painful perception of the world around him are well documented in his diaries. But let's be honest, everything is forgiven for geniuses.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

It is very likely that Tolkien’s own handwriting is akin to the ancient writings of Gandalf himself. Just look at all these magical curls that look like some kind of spell. That's for sure - a fan of his work.

Elvis Presley

Elvis was one of the most controversial characters in music history. The “King” bought his friends houses and paid for their weddings. One day he purchased 14 limousines at once and gave one of them to an unfamiliar visitor to a car dealership. Perhaps this was reflected in his handwriting, which is as inconsistent as its author.

Edgar Allan Poe

Gloomy and mysterious, lonely and metaphorical, Edgar Allan Poe is remembered in world history as the author of the most terrible stories. Like a jeweler, he carefully draws out each letter, and the strong tilt conveys the assertiveness of his complex character. And this is not surprising, because Edgar himself was confident that thanks to honed skills and hard work, any writer is able to create a work of genius and express the most subtle emotional experience.

Marilyn Monroe

This letter was written exactly at the very moment when Monroe's psychological state was deteriorating more and more. Despite the mental confusion, the text is well organized and reads without much effort. However, if you look closely, you will notice quite a lot of capital letters. Perhaps this means that the image of the great self (the actress) eventually suppressed Monroe's essence as an ordinary person.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

As you can see, the famous author of The Great Gatsby had quite legible handwriting. Moreover, there is only one correction in the entire text (and even then at the very beginning). Perhaps this is one of the few examples when the manuscript of a work is not a series of amendments and errors.

Charlie Chaplin

This small note was left by Charlie Chaplin in 1967, when he was already quite old. The sharp angles and varying spacing tell us that this guy was anything but sugar. The assertive handwriting of a man who has come a long way in life seems to say, “Guys, I already know everything perfectly well.”

Peter the First

This letter of Peter was written at a fairly young age. All the contradictory nature and internal conflicts of the sovereign are visible in the handwriting. All this, in essence, means that most of the actions and decisions he made in his life (including those that turned out to be historically important and useful for the country in general) often had completely different motives than is commonly believed!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon changed his handwriting throughout his life (he has about seven of them). Over the years, Napoleon's handwriting became more and more confusing and illegible. By the way, Napoleon wrote a novel. It’s called “Clisson and Eugenia,” and the experts also had to work hard to decipher it. You may notice that the handwriting and the autograph are completely different. This is exactly the case when one can see the striking difference between the image, the socially desired mask, and what is happening “beneath the surface.”

Sergey Yesenin

Mister Martel
My daughter and I just finished reading Life of Pi. We both preferred the animal story. This beautiful book is an elegant proof of the existence of God and the power of storytelling. Thank you.
This is a sweet and kind letter written by Barack Obama to the author of the book “Life of Pi” Yann Martel. From the handwriting we can see that the President does not have the elaborate handwriting akin to the aristocrats of the 19th century. However, look at the signature. This is where the line between the common man and his role in the state is in stark contrast.

Jane Austen

Jane Austen is one of the most beloved women writers of the last century. However, she herself was never married, and transferred her entire supply of unspent maternal love to her many nieces and her few literary creations. Her smooth, confident handwriting demonstrates the author's love for paper and writing.

Vladimir Nabokov

If you still haven’t realized that the handwriting of great people is not always perfect, then here is a fragment of the manuscript of “Invitation to Execution” by Vladimir Nabokov. To understand a text in its entirety, you need to not only be able to read, you need to feel the writer.

Ernest Hemingway

If we were shown this manuscript and we did not know who it belonged to, then it would be quite difficult to guess whose hand it was. However, the owner of this handwriting is he - Ernest Hemingway. Despite his difficult and rebellious character, he had a completely harmless handwriting.

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Well, of course, it is very interesting to see how Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin himself wrote. The great writer, as you can see, did not have the most legible handwriting, but you cannot deny his neat writing.

Leonardo da Vinci

Left-sided, mirror handwriting in psychology is called “Leonardo’s handwriting.” Leonardo da Vinci wrote his notes in exactly this handwriting, which makes them very difficult to decipher.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy's handwriting was unclear with a confusion of symbols and additions. Only his wife, who had to rewrite War and Peace countless times, could understand it. Psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso, looking at Leo Tolstoy’s handwriting, came to the conclusion that it belongs to a woman of easy virtue with psychopathic tendencies.

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