1. Northanger Abbey
In Northanger Abbey, Austen intended to reflect a contrast between a normal, healthy-natured girl and the romantic heroines of fiction thorough the use of characterization. By portraying the main character, Catherine Moreland, as a girl slightly affected with romantic notions, Jane Austen exhibits the contrast between the world as it is and the world as imagined by the romancers whom she wished to ridicule. ... Other characters are brought into the book to contrast each other and to show the reader the differences between characters, which in turn can represent the difference in people during...
- Word Count: 2803
- Approx Pages: 11
- Grade Level: High School