Isabella In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

The book Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is more complicated than what can be seen by the naked eye. Each turn that the story takes and each decision the character makes can be seen as a carefully calculated detail taken in part of the writer to prove a point. Each aspect of the story might have been added to make the reader think of what they believe and put it up against what is shown in the book and one of these circumstances happen to be Isabella Thrope and the depiction of her character. Isabella is viewed as an antagonist by Catherine Morland and maybe by most of the readers and before coming to this conclusion, the question of why she behaves the way she does and what circumstances she is trying to overcome must be considered.
In the story, Isabella is seen to be envious …show more content…
In the book, the readers get a glimpse of the events of the story through the lens of Catherine Morland and the insight to all of these events might be more limited than it should be, getting only one characters perspectives on a situation doesn’t fully allow the readers to take every angle of the events and the lives of all of the characters into consideration and all of these facts are important when forming an opinion of the characters and as stated by Addison “We cannot, indeed, have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; ..” (Addison), and this is when Isabella’s experiences, circumstances and other obstacles that she has to face comes into the