Jane Austen is able to critique society as well by sharing her opinion in this novel. ... Jane Austen is showing that Catherine is not the ideal reader. ... Jane Austen is able to show the importance of reading. ... However, Jane Austen does show characters growing through out the book. ... We see Jane Austen's doing this in many ways. ...
Prior to a reading of Jane Austen, I feel that it is imperative to secure an insight into the social context in which she writes. ... This is inexorably reflected via Austen's incessant strive to establish and demonstrate the correct code of conduct, in all areas of social behaviour. I will examine Austen's Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice, observing the use of manners and the significance attached to its literary convention. ... Whenever Austen introduces a new character into a novel the reader soon learns something about his or her manners. ... Austen was more than an ent...
Austen & the Female Gaze: Success or Defeat? ... Jane Austen is a popular author who is frequently seen as promoting the existence of a female gaze. ... Deciding whether or not Austen was exhibiting a female gaze can best be determined by comparing the role of the gaze in Austen's most widely known novel, Pride and Prejudice, and the novel that stands out among her others, Northanger Abbey. ... Austen's novels are full of men who fit this description. ... These examples are quite different from Austen's use of male characters in Pride and Prejudice. ...
Austen completely ridicules gothic literature through Catherine's thoughts concerning the Tilney's home at Northanger Abbey. ... Austen is mocking the gothic as a genre. We know that it was very popular in the time when Austen wrote the novel. ... Jane Austen provides her audience with an alternative form of literature by having a novel focus on how a story can be told as opposed to most novels which traditionally focus on the story itself. Cleverly, by using a likeable character that the implied reader can identify with and relate to, Austen is able to use this character as a mode...
Catherine Morland grew with time on her lengthy journey to self-discovery in Jane Austen's classic tale Northanger Abbey, by learning valuable lessons about society, reality as oppose to imagination, and herself. ... vain coquette'", (Austen, 142) Isabella, who writes to our heroine in hope of rekindling their once intimate relationship. ... Austen foretells that Catherine is in actuality learning a lesson from this mediocre and simplistic incident by saying: "Could not the adventure of the chest have taught her wisdom" (Austen, 111), implying that if there had not been a message to...
