Article Draft: Copying from Northanger Abbey
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| === Bildungsroman === | === Bildungsroman === |
| While Catherine controls her imagination, she simultaneously endures the reality of individuals behaving in a contradictory manner from what they say. This creates confusion for Catherine which forces her to realize that she should not rely solely on others who are negative influences, such as Isabella, but instead be an independent thinker. Regardless of her engagement to James Morland, Isabella flirts with Frederick Tilney, breaks her engagement to James, and is discarded by Frederick which as a result causes herself great shame. Catherine begins to realize Isabella's poor influence when the Thorpes cause her to miss her appointment with Henry and Eleanor Tilney, but it is not until the shocking wrongdoing against her brother that Catherine entirely separates herself from their friendship, stating that she may never speak to Isabella again. As this scene takes place almost immediately after Catherine's lesson about Gothic novels, it is a clear sign of her increasing maturity. | While Catherine controls her imagination, she simultaneously endures the reality of individuals behaving in a contradictory manner from what they say. This creates confusion for Catherine which forces her to realize that she should not rely solely on others who are negative influences, such as Isabella, but instead be an independent thinker. Regardless of her engagement to James Morland, Isabella flirts with Frederick Tilney, breaks her engagement to James, and is discarded by Frederick which as a result causes herself great shame. Catherine begins to realize Isabella's poor influence when the Thorpes cause her to miss her appointment with Henry and Eleanor Tilney, but it is not until the shocking wrongdoing against her brother that Catherine entirely separates herself from their friendship, stating that she may never speak to Isabella again. As this scene takes place almost immediately after Catherine's lesson about Gothic novels, it is a clear sign of her increasing maturity. |
| === The value of reading === | |
| In one of Austen's narrator's boldest proclamations, they exert their opinion on the significance of reading novels, writing: "I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it". In this famous moment, Austen's narrator acknowledges the hypocrisy in insulting those who read novels. It is also made clear in this text that those who are considered "good" and well-educated read novels, such as Henry and Eleanor Tilney. John Thorpe, for example, who does not read novels, is the cad of the text. | |
| === References === | === References === |
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