Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Heroine and Hero depicted by Literature? Jane Austen depicts all her heroines as passionate readers of literature yet also has a tendency to highlight the lessons that can be learnt both right and wrong and how it effects her heroines lives‚ in this case Catherine’s life. Reading has the imperative purposes in Austen’s world of writing to offer her heroines an escape‚ entertainment‚ and information to guide through self-improvement and growth. Whereas the hero in
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the imagination‚ endorsing a reverence and personal connection to nature. The set texts Fancy and Ode to a Nightingale explore a world created by imagination‚ emphasising the importance of reflection and sustaining a relationship with nature. Northanger Abbey however‚ examines the interplay between reason and imagination. The related text Thanatopsis possesses tropes of Dark Romanticism‚
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In the passage from Jane Austen’s Novel Northanger Abbey‚ Austen uses several literary devices to describe Catherine Morland such as her use of diction and imagery to help characterize Catherine Morland. “Her situation in life‚ the character of her father and mother‚ her own person and disposition‚ were all equally against her.” After reading this what would you think of Catherine Morland? That maybe she is poor? Not so bright? This a perfect example of one of the sentences of imagery used by Austen
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The Expectation of “True Ladies” in Middle and Upper Class Societies in the 19th Century England is a theme Jane Austen is alluding to her novel Northanger Abbey. There are many key characteristics that exemplified a true lady of European culture in the 18th and 19th century such as being attractive‚ but also being polite and respectful. Most of these features were taught to help the young lady on the marriage market. Catherine Morland‚ a blossoming young lady‚ is educated about the “true lady” characteristics
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Samantha Wong Professor Jennifer Riske English 2323 15 June 2016 Writing Assignment One: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” In William Wordsworth’s famous poem‚ “Tintern Abbey”‚ the poet deemed nature as valuable because he regarded nature as a moral guide‚ mentor throughout his life‚ and as well as restorative existence. When Wordsworth was child‚ he passionately reflected and cherished his time of isolation from the world as he pondered life in Wye River Valley as a youth
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getaway from reality in “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey‚” where he revisits Tintern Abbey along with his younger sister‚ Dorothy‚ after five years. Compared to his experience five years earlier‚ Wordsworth reacts differently to the calmness of Tintern Abbey. During this new reaction‚ Wordsworth relates his emotions to the cycles of life. In “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above
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LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY William Wordsworth CONTEXT (AO1) Written in July of 1798 and published as the last poem of Lyrical Ballads. At the age of twenty-three (in August of 1793)‚ Wordsworth had visited the desolate abbey alone. In 1798 he returned to the same place with his beloved sister‚ Dorothy Wordsworth‚ who was a year younger. Dorothy is referred to as "Friend" throughout the poem. (whom he addresses warmly in the final paragraph as "thou my dearest Friend‚
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Miles above Tintern Abbey” seems to be based from memories and the cycles of life through nature. Memory seems to be very important to Wordsworth‚ almost like it enlightens the mind. When the poem starts‚ Wordsworth lays the foundation of Tintern Abbey from his visit five years in the past. We see this in lines 1-22 as he describes his memories of the abbey. The steep cliffs‚ the cottage-ground‚ the orchard-tuffs‚ the hedge-rows‚ pastoral farms‚ etc. He is using his memory of the abbey to anticipate his
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Poem Analysis :. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey is about William Wordsworth‚ and his longing to return to this special place a few miles above Tintern Abbey which he absolutely adores. We can see he has been away from this place for five years‚ and he always thinks about this magical place with its steep lofty cliffs and its beautiful scenery. He loves the mountain cliffs and springs. He loves the quiet‚ it gives him a chance to stop and think; seclusion. In the first stanza
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Briony’s betrayal and tendency for storytelling reflects the actions of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey‚ a passage from which McEwan includes as an epigraph. Catherine‚ like Briony‚ has an overactive imagination and is obsessed with stories‚ specifically gothic fiction‚ which causes her to accuse a perfectly innocent man of murder‚ thereby creating
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