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    first published novel. All of her works gained a lot of success and recognition, yet she never claimed fame for them. Her anonymity continued until after her death in 1817. Jane’s identity was revealed through the release of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey when her brother identified her as the author of these novels. Critiques began to examine her work and comment on them. Many praised Jane for her witty characters, satirical elements, and irony. Some viewed her as a feminist due to her portrayal of

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    key to female happiness (Richardson 2005:399). This projection is reflected in Northanger Abbey when Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey: ‘Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine’s feelings to the highest point of ecstasy’ ( Austen pp.99-100). The use of ‘ecstasy’ reflects Catherine’s excessive personality and self-transcendence. Catherine’s gothic idealist vision of the abbey and her pursuit of pleasure, signifies her lack of self-directedness in which she dismisses

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    follow conventional roles. These societal roles are also dependent on gender as it can be seen in the two novels. In Jane Eyre and Northanger Abbey, the authors both use the bildungsroman of two young women to illustrate the confinements and conflicts that the protagonists face as they strive to find their own identity within societal expectations. In Northanger Abbey, Austen writes Catherine’s story in a third person perspective. By writing in this lens, the story has a tendency to be along the lines

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    Finding a Voice: Point of View and Narration in The Color Purple and Jane Eyre "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambitioned inspired, and success achieved." Notable words expressed by Helen Keller. She mentions the character of a person must suffer through hardships in order for the soul to build up, like a muscle, and thus achieve a goal through inspiration. Whether it comes from within, or from someone

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    Pepper, and White, have all been subject to analysis in finding clues of McCartney's “death”. On the Abbey Road album cover, Paul is pictured walking out of step and without shoes on. According to Sarah Bruce, this indicates that he had died and been replaced by a body double. Also within the album cover is a license plate that has the registration “LMV

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    If you look on the cover of Abbey Road you can see Paul is the only one out of step and barefoot, to drawing slightly more attention to Paul. Foreign religions are often buried barefoot. The Beatles, shown walking in a specific order; John dressed in white, as a religious person would be. Ringo dressed as an undertaker. Paul, shabby suited and barefoot, resembles a corpse; and finally George, in old jeans, is a gravedigger. The cover of Abbey Road is a funeral procession. Paul also

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    Quote #1: In the first chapter of Everything Matters!, Ron Currie Jr. sets up the story by introducing the theme of the book on page 9. The quote which sets up the theme of this novel reads, “There are things we can surmise, though, one being that if you are still alive when the comet hits, neither you nor anything else on the planet will be afterward. All of which raises the question-your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like-a question which men and women, great and not-so, of every color

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    How does Northanger Abbey use representation of buildings and architecture to communicate ideas to the reader? In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen uses buildings and architecture to represent ideas to the reader about appearance vs reality and to provide evidence for the view that Catherine sees life through a gothic lense. I will be focusing on how Blaise Castle does this and how both Northanger Abbey’s external and internal architecture does this. Appearance vs reality is a strong theme throughout

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    The Albatross by Kate Bass reveals a kind of loneliness and sadness to it. The poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme, it just flows as you read. It is split into 3 stanzas and has 20 lines that make up the whole poem. Kate Bass is a British poet that was born in North London in 1962. She went to Edinburgh University and studied chemistry, but later studied illustration at Anglia Polytechnic University. Now she lives in Cambridge, England with her family and works as an illustrator. Kate Bass' poems mostly

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    Balance Between Sense and Sensibility in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Throughout her novel, Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen integrates parody with characterization to emphasize the necessity of a balance between sense and sensibility while reflecting a theme of the initiation of a young woman into the complexities of adult social life. This novel can be traced back as one of Jane Austen's earliest works. It was written in 1798, but not published until 1818, and is an excellent example of what

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