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General Tilney in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

we are talking of a coming of age story it is appropriate that this character serves as a foil for the young lady in question. The...

General Tilney in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

a fine old fellow, stout, active -- looks as young as his son: a gentleman-like, good sort of fellow as ever lived" When Catherin...

Instruction Levels in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In ten pages this paper discusses the intellectual gender perceptions in the 18th century as presented in the novel with the contr...

Vindication of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how Jane Austen's once dismissed and critically panned novel has vindicated itself because of t...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Education of Men and Women in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In four pages this paper examines the educational differences among men and women in England of the 18th century and their social ...

Money, Society, and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Lilio's Play London Merchant

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...

Money in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey

entire romance between Catherine and Henry is based on finances as far as the powers that be are concerned. "Catherine is invited ...

Comparative Analysis of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

Frances Burney and Jane Austen on Realism and Women

not a trifle that will support a family nowadays" (Austen NA). As we can see, money is an incredibly important issue in this co...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Social Worlds: Austen and Dickens

because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...

Jane Eyre and the Omniscient Narrator of "Pride and Prejudice"

are taking place far away, or even in another room. On the other hand, a first-person narrator like Jane can speak directly to us...

Passage Analysis from Pride and Prejudice

Prejudice perfectly illustrates the main characteristics of Elizabeth Bennett, the main protagonist of the novel, as well as those...

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte's Literary Estates

In seven pages this paper examines the domestic and social views associated with the estates in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and ...

Austen and Trollope/A Comparison

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

Discussing Catherine Morland's and Jane Austen's Heroines

In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Protagonists

he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...

Elizabeth Bennett, Characterization in Pride and Prejudice

This essay pertains to the way in which Elizabeth Bennett is characterized in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The writer partic...

Marriage in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

marriage was a way to survive as an individual and in society. Men and women in society who were not married were seen as eccentri...

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

Society and Women: Sense and Sensibility by Austen

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

The Realistic Novel: Pride and Prejudice and Fathers and Sons

beautiful or charming as her sister. Her charm lies in her honesty, openness and her wit. Darcy is a man who, at first, seems take...

'Pride and Prejudice' of Mr. Darcy in the Novel by Jane Austen

is better. We note some of his pride when we see him at the party where he quickly dismisses Elizabeth, stating "She is tolerable;...

Literature and Society's Veils or Illusions

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film Compared

Dashwood) and director Lee were steadfastly committed to presenting a screen adaptation that was faithful to the novel, and with a...

Women of Different Eras. Comparing Pride and Prejudice with Bridget Jones Diary

this, then, there are two very different interpretations of the movies effectiveness and its cinematography. And, yet, it achieved...

Pride and Prejudice and Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century

There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...

Analysis of the Protagonist in Lady Susan by Jane Austen

mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...