Isabella knows a lot about fashions, balls, and flirtations was known by her conversation with Catherine when she was comparing these thing in Bath with another place (Austen, Chapter 4). Bath has all these things that allow her to feel wealthy even though she isn’t. She reads and goes to pump rooms, where wealthy people is her ways of being away from her true status and away from her family financial background. She has to look into the novels to fulfill her hunger of reality she wants. Because of Isabella’s background she sees the reality and want to hide it away and go to the Bath society where she can find the life she wants. Reading her lists of books, is her ways of fulfilling her desires.
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In the Northanger Abbey, John’s characteristic is not very kind by the act of him continuously lying to Catherine and General Tilney in order to get what he wants. From the conversation that Catherine and John had during their first horse carriage ride, John said, “ ‘Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t’other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.’ ”(Austen, Chapter 7). Further research on Tom Jones, it is a comic novel by Henry Fielding published in 1749 about Tom Jones’ life journey as an abandoned baby, who grew up to be a thoughtless and rude bastard until he changes when he falls in love with Sophia Western and searches for his birth mother (Yardley). The other book John mention is the Monk. This gothic novel written by Matthew Lewis is about a hypocritic Monk name Ambrosio, who caused harms to many other characters by abusing his power to have greed, pride and erotic obsessions("The Monk by Matthew Lewis."). Relating both books to John, both books are from the point of views of men, unlike The Mystery of Udolpho and Camila are in women’s point of views. On the side note, John also reflect the main characters in the two books he enjoys. Like the male characters, they all greeds for lust and throughout the book, John takes action …show more content…
Morland, Catherine’s mother, was also into novels. This was seen through conversation of other characters and her actions. In chapter 6 of the book, during Isabell’s conversation with Catherine, Austen included that, “ ‘It is so odd to me, that you should never have read Udolpho before; but I suppose Mrs. Morland objects to novels.’ ‘No, she does not. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new books do not fall in our way.’ ”. This dialogue between the two shows that Mrs. Morland is fond of novels. Another detail shows that she’s interested in novel is when she suggests Catherine the novel, The Mirror, in chapter 30. Mrs. Morland said to Catherine, ‘There is a very clever essay in one of the books upstairs upon much such a subject, about young girls that have been spoilt for home by great acquaintance — The Mirror, I think. I will look it out for you some day or other, because I am sure it will do you good.’ (Austen, Chapter 30). This shows that Mrs.Morland has an interest in the novel because she was able to explain the novel and her opinion is it’s a ‘clever essay’. Overall, Mrs.Morland’s interest in novel shows that she has a sense of the novel fictional
Isabella successfully caught Frederick 's attention …show more content…
In the Northanger Abbey, John’s characteristic is not very kind by the act of him continuously lying to Catherine and General Tilney in order to get what he wants. From the conversation that Catherine and John had during their first horse carriage ride, John said, “ ‘Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t’other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.’ ”(Austen, Chapter 7). Further research on Tom Jones, it is a comic novel by Henry Fielding published in 1749 about Tom Jones’ life journey as an abandoned baby, who grew up to be a thoughtless and rude bastard until he changes when he falls in love with Sophia Western and searches for his birth mother (Yardley). The other book John mention is the Monk. This gothic novel written by Matthew Lewis is about a hypocritic Monk name Ambrosio, who caused harms to many other characters by abusing his power to have greed, pride and erotic obsessions("The Monk by Matthew Lewis."). Relating both books to John, both books are from the point of views of men, unlike The Mystery of Udolpho and Camila are in women’s point of views. On the side note, John also reflect the main characters in the two books he enjoys. Like the male characters, they all greeds for lust and throughout the book, John takes action …show more content…
Morland, Catherine’s mother, was also into novels. This was seen through conversation of other characters and her actions. In chapter 6 of the book, during Isabell’s conversation with Catherine, Austen included that, “ ‘It is so odd to me, that you should never have read Udolpho before; but I suppose Mrs. Morland objects to novels.’ ‘No, she does not. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new books do not fall in our way.’ ”. This dialogue between the two shows that Mrs. Morland is fond of novels. Another detail shows that she’s interested in novel is when she suggests Catherine the novel, The Mirror, in chapter 30. Mrs. Morland said to Catherine, ‘There is a very clever essay in one of the books upstairs upon much such a subject, about young girls that have been spoilt for home by great acquaintance — The Mirror, I think. I will look it out for you some day or other, because I am sure it will do you good.’ (Austen, Chapter 30). This shows that Mrs.Morland has an interest in the novel because she was able to explain the novel and her opinion is it’s a ‘clever essay’. Overall, Mrs.Morland’s interest in novel shows that she has a sense of the novel fictional