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arrangement of highlights for the setting, plot and characters. That brought a rush of feedback of the Gothic novel and started the act of satirizing its traditions. One of the best parodists of Gothic moved toward becoming Jane Austen with her novel Northanger Abbey. This exposition exhibits the essential highlights of Gothic fiction and Jane Austen's techniques for mocking them. The primary section concentrates on the introduction of the Gothic traditions. It is essential to comprehend the customary

Feminism in Northanger Abbey From my point of view, Jane Austen should be seen as a ‘feminist’ writer. As she wrote in one of her novel Persuasion, she considers that ‘Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything’ (Anne Elliot, in Jane Austen’s Persuasion). Such feminist ideas are expressed in many of her literary works. In her another novel

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

The opening passage of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey describes a woman by the name of Catherine Morland , who didn't quite exemplify the idealized and admired heroine qualities most individuals may have thought she would have displayed at an earlier age. This passage beginning with “ No one - and ending in slope at the back of the house” is composed of various literary techniques utilized to characterize Catherine Morland’s unconventional personality as an heroine. Austen uses imagery to

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.” This is the first sentence of Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austin. This is probably one of the best first sentences I have ever read. The first sentence sets the scene and with this as the first sentence it definitely sets the scene! This first sentences sets the scene for two ideas, the first is that Catherine is going to become a Heroine, and the second is that she is an unlikely one at that

In Northanger Abbey, Austen highlights the dangers of an educated woman and demonstrates through Catherine that to be ignorant is far more beneficial. On a walk with Henry and Eleanor Tilney, Catherine feels out of place as the they begin to talk about a subject she is unfamiliar with, drawing. She becomes heartily ashamed of her ignorance, but the narrator says: “Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant... A woman especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing any thing, should

In Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey, conformity is a very prominent recurring theme. The main character Catherine Morland fails to conform to the clichés of a typical literary heroine and woman in the aristocratic society. As a child she never enjoyed the more ‘girly’ activities, she “had no taste for a garden, and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief,” (Austen 5). As a young teenager she was quite foolish and awkward. The narrator stated at the beginning

Castle of Otranto & Northanger Abbey The Castle of Otranto was written in 1764, by Horace Walpole. This novel is a Gothic novel, and I will be writing an essay about this novel to show, and explain how Gothic it is. I will be picking a specific character to explain and compare to another book to show how both are Gothic, but in their own way. This essay will seek and unfold the differences of Manfred in Otranto, and General Tilney in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. When Northanger Abbey was written

murderer (Austen 197). When confronted with a critic who asserts that the same Henry is not only an imposter pretending to act as the narrator’s mouthpiece, but also the antagonist in Catherine’s story, the reader may ask the same question. To answer, Northanger Abbey critic Tara Ghoshal Wallace argues that Henry’s relationship with Catherine, and with women in general, is akin to the narrator’s oppressive relationship with the reader. More specifically, Wallace reveals how the narrator and Henry both tend

world literature who is regarded as a “classic” and yet is widely read. She wrote six major novels, however, only four novels were published during her life time that established her reputation in literary circle anonymously. Her earliest novel Northanger Abbey and last completed novel Persuasion were the novels which were not published during her life-time. The two novels were