{"product_id":"jane-austens-northanger-abbey-is-catherine-morland-an-ideal-heroine-von-anna-miller","title":"Jane Austen's \"Northanger Abbey\": Is Catherine Morland an Ideal Heroine?","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: Content\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Analysis and Interpretation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Catherine's Qualifications\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Catherine's Weaknesses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the British fiction of the nineteenth century female protagonists were especially outstanding and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot only used by Jane Austen, who wrote about Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse or Catherine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorland, just to name a few of them, but also by Sir Walter Scott with his heroine Jeanie Deans (cf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorgan 559). Many other authors of the nineteenth century chose a heroine as a main character and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot a hero, even if there are very well men participating in the story, but they only have a minor role\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand represent the counterpart to the women (cf. Morgan 559).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the question may arise why especially in that century women played the major role in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe novels whereas before and after that the protagonists had mostly been male (cf. Morgan 560).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(...)Instead, it is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto take a closer look at one of these heroines, which is Catherine Morland. The aim of this work is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto decide whether she is an ideal heroine or not. To come to a decision it is necessary to analyse her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echaracter as well as her actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the whole story, as well as all the other protagonists, are set around her, the reader gets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto know how Catherine feels, how she thinks, and especially learns a lot about her likes and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edislikes. We do not get as much information about other characters as we get about Catherine. But if\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe look closer at the person of Catherine, it becomes questionable whether it is justified to award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe title of an ideal heroine to her. The reader accompanies her through her whole stay in Bath and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorthanger Abbey and has a chance to observe her behaviour in crucial situations. This observation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis often bilateral, as on the one hand we can see the self-confident girl travelling on her own, and on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe other hand her childish behaviour and her naivete point out that she is not yet a grown-up. This\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecomes notably evident when we compare her to the other characters in the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, this has to be analysed in detail in order to make a fair decision. In the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efollowing passages I would therefore firstly like to illustrate to what extend one can call Catherine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean ideal heroine, what her strengths are and when she might be superior to other persons, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecondly, this should be contrasted to the attributes which disqualify her to be labelled such in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eregard to the weak points in her character and behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656231790\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656231790","offer_id":39445767159901,"sku":"9783656231790","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/abe7d211-4d37-489e-bae9-84418b22484d.jpg?v=1777956406","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/jane-austens-northanger-abbey-is-catherine-morland-an-ideal-heroine-von-anna-miller","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}