Jane Austen's Nothanger Abbey

Catherine Morland's Coming of Age in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Jane Austen's intelligence and sophisticated diction made her a revolutionary author, and her mastery surpasses most modern authors. By challenging conventional stereotypes in her novels, she gives the open-minded reader a new perspective through the message she conveys. Her first novel, Northanger Abbey, focuses on reading. However, she parallels typical novel reading with the reading of people. Catherine Morland's coming of age hinges on her ability to become a better reader of both novels and people.

Jane Austen’s Influence on Literature “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” This was one of many austere comments made by Jane Austen in her book Mansfield Park. It was this radical way of writing that captured the attention of readers from all over, and made a lasting impression on scholars, critics, and readers for centuries. Austen tremendously impacted the world of literature by introducing a new style of writing, using new literary devices to describe her daily life, and continuing to remain current throughout the centuries. Jane Austen was one of the first writers to introduce an entirely new style of writing. Before Austen wrote her novels, the writing was unrealistic, dismissable and unrelatable.

Marika Cabay British Literature Ms. Martina Diaz April 6, 2014 Sense and Sensibility By: Jane Austen Some novels written back then from authors have made huge impacts on authors today. The novel “Sense and Sensibility” is an astounding story that was able to enhance their readers point of view towards love, greed, and most importantly family. The novel presents the audience with extraordinary characters that created an experience of something similar to today’s society. Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in Stevenson, England. Where her family was close and her parents were well respected community members.

Who Run the World? Not Girls in the 19th Century. Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, is one of the most renowned works in literature with the underlying notion of captivating the essence of an early 19th century woman. Although at first glance the novel may appear to be about love and it’s entanglement with the basic human qualities of pride and prejudice, if the reader analyzes deeper into the text they would be able to pinpoint that the novel could actually be taken in as Austen’s personal perspective towards the attributes of what made the ideal lady of this time period. Paying close attention and giving a deeper evaluation of the foiled characterizations, the dialogue between characters, point of view, the audience is able to identify Austen's portrayal of women in the novel and their correlation to her own personal feminist points of view.

Miss Du Maurier forces the reader to look behind the obvious and mundane to observe the hidden depth and layers of the characters she breathed life to. Beneath Du Maurier’s words, her symbolism feeds into the reader’s imagination with the simple narration of plot, that alludes to a deeper perception of each of the characters. This added depth transforms Rebecca from the average Gothic romance to a literary classic. One of the first and most prominent forms of symbolism that is applied to the novel is the long drive to Manderley. This drive makes use of the setting as an introduction to the late Rebecca.

She tells him, “Mr. Heathcliff, you’re a cruel man but you’re not a fiend. ... ... middle of paper ... ...ifetime of bliss. By tracing this development, perhaps modern day heroines can learn to utilize their own inner strengths, overcome great hardships, and gain a new perspective. Through the study of gothic fiction, aspiring novelists can learn how to create a character arc for their female characters which revolves around her own agency as opposed to the acquirement of a significant other.

Jane Austen, born December 16, 1775, was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction earned her a place as one of the most widely read authors in English literature. Austen’s novels critique the life of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism. Though her novels were by no means autobiographical, her fictional characters do shed light on the facts of her life and but more importantly, they offered aspiring writers a model of how great works of literature were created. In 1796 and 1797 she worked on her novel First Impressions. This novel was later revised and published in 1813 as Pride and Prejudice.

Metamorphosis in Pride and Prejudice As the story develops in Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, the reader is witness to a shift in attitude between the principle characters. The chapter in which Elizabeth Bennett's reactions to Mr. Darcy's letter are explored provides valuable insights into this metamorphosis. The first description of Elizabeth's state upon perusing Fitzwilliam Darcy's revelatory missive is characteristic of Austen when relating heavy emotion: she doesn't. "Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined," she tells us (Austen 233). Of course, all this negation of representational skills is purely for dramatic effect, and Miss Austen goes on to provide a full account of every aspect of Elizabeth's emotional upheaval per her reading of the letter, but not, however, without using the device again in the second paragraph, in treating the subject of the truth about Mr. Wickham.

Jane Austen sought to provide her audience with reading lessons, illustrating clear messages to teach them how to act and judge, not only in literature, but in everyday life. Love and Friendship, contained within Juvenilia, is an example of a parody of sentimentalism. Jane Austen describes overly dramatic scenes, similar to those that one would have read in a sentimental novel. She starts off by addressing the sentimentalist concept of the “perfect heroine.” Laura, the main character who fulfills this stereotype, describes herself early in the novel. “In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered; it was the Rendezvous of every good Quality & of every noble sentiment” (p.78,... ... middle of paper ... ...y had no real life applications.

Juell Towns 4/3/14 P.2 Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House is an astonishing, yet accurate portrayal of how women were treated in the 1800s. It is essentially a force runner to women's rights and sets a path for many more feminist works to come. The novel fiercely challenges the modern idea that all women, by virtue of being women, are inclined towards feminist political interests. The roles of women have been a big part of literature and are usually a representation of how the roles of women in real life have evolved and continue to evolve. A Doll's House is an essential part of IBO specifically for the fact that it shows historical realism in the Victorian Era, and continues to challenge the unrealistic expectations of women in marriage.