In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, the characterization of the protagonist -Catherine Morland- seems to be constructed by her own fantasies, extracted by her reading of ... for an adult woman, and the exposition the exhibition of her innocence and naivety in the beginning. Jane Austen uses the alienation of the protagonist in Northanger Abbey to establish a mental development, triggered by prodding the bubble fabricated by Catherine through means of fantasies and irrational thinking, by changing her social environment and ... not teach her the ability to read between the lines of sophisticate...

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... And Details Of Her Experiences As Criticism Of The Gothic Novel Jane Austen consciously refers to and comments on the standards and conventions of the gothic genre in her novel Northanger Abbey. Throughout the entire narrative she portrays her main character, Catherine Morland, as ordinary and the opposite of the heroines customarily seen in the gothic novels of the time. "She (Catherine ... ashamed of Isabella, and ashamed of having ever loved her" (190). Austen is clearly showing what actual, contemporary women did to become heroines in Britain's late eighteenth century middle class. ...

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... more importance than laws'. 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. As we follow our young narrator, Catherine Morland, through the social rituals which ... ultimately test the quality of her polite performance, we are able to witness Northanger Abbey's obvious interest in conveying the connection between proper manners and a h...

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