Northanger Abbey – Flashcards
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Setting
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Early nineteenth century England in either Fullerton, Woodston, Bath or Northanger Abby
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Main Character
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Catherine Morland, a kinda sweet teenager who is also young and inexperienced. Often mistakes fiction for reality and is not much of a heroin. However, Intelligent and learns from mistakes. Seventeen years old.
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What are some main themes?
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-love - youth - society and class - Gothic Novel
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what is a gothic novel?
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a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance
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Source Card for Northanger Abby
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Author: Jane Austin Publisher: John Murray Publishing Date: December 1817
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Henry Tilney
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twenty-six year old man in the village Woodston. He is intelligent as well as well read and find amusement in how naive others can be.
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James Moorland
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Catherines brother who is caring like her
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Where does Catherine live?
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Comes from a family with a decent mount of wealth in the rural town of Fullerton.
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What happens within the first chapter?
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Catherine departs to Bath with mr. and mrs. Allen
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Who is Mr. and mrs. Allen
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An older couple who lives in Fullerton as well. little more wealthy than the Moorland but are childless and treats Catherine as their own.
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Heroine
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Catherine is always referred to this. A woman admired or idolized for her bravery, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Dictionary.com
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Parent/ Catherine relationship
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They love her but always thought her plain u too about 15 when she started to fil out and pretty herself each day. Now think of her as "almost pretty". Page 4
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Departing to bath
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Mother does not know much about nobleman or baronets so she is not able to provide much advice that a young lady like Catherine needs to keep her safe. Page 7.
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Authors structure
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Third person and provides detailed background information about each character allowing full character development
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Mrs. Allen
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Parallelism to Catherine. She is jealous of her because she had everything Catherine but her beauty and was held back by this. Page 7
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The ball
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Catherine was extremely disappointed no one had talked to her and she was not able to dance. Mrs. Allen did not help not introduce Catherine to anyone. Page 10
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Tilneu
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First "hero" Catherine met very agreeable and smart about 24 or 25. Page 13
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Societal rolls
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Catherine seems to be pushing her manners with me tilneh for she dreams of him only after one meeting and speaks feely with him. Page 15
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Chapter 3
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Falls for mr. Tilneh who is from a respectable family and impresses both Catherine and Mrs. Allen with his wit and charm
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Mrs Thorpe
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Old aquatince of mrs Allen met before their marriages. Has much more conversational skills than mrs Allen but provides them company in bath page 17
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Important Quote Page 30
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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Important Quote
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"Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else." ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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Important quote 102
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"Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth." ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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Conflict
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Catherine, with irrational fear brought to her by her imagination, conintues to disappoint the man who loves her
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Source Card
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Author: Jane Austen Title: Northanger Abby publication: 1817 John Murray, Albemarle Street
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Tone
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Light and satirical with characters witt
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How does Catherine change?
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Goes from a nieve innocent girl, to realizing the nature of people and that all people can have good and bad. Not black and white like a novel.
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What does Northanger abby symboilze
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- An imagined ideal
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Disposition
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Dictionary.com someone's usual mood, temperament
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Auspice
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a sign or omen
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Foreshadowing?
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Catherine's hypothetical first night at Bath actually foreshadows her first night as Bath
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Motif
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A recurring subject, theme, or idea.
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Source Card
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Dictionary.com motif. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved March 09, 2015, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/motif
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What are the motifs in the novel?
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Reading, wealth and ostentation
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Ostentation
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pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance; display intended to impress others.
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Treatment of Women
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- Women were looked down upon and the simpler house chores were left for them to complete while the "hard labor " jobs were left for the men.
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Marriage
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- One of the great social pressures of the time was to get married and to marry well. Women married young often by the age of 13 or 14. To not be married by the age of 25 was embarrassing. http://www.angelfire.com/ca/HistoryGals/Chloe.html
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Marriage Continued
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- Even widows were forced back into marriage with some state laws demanding it within 7 years of husbands death. http://www.angelfire.com/ca/HistoryGals/Chloe.html
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Property Rights
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- Women were considered legally one with husband and had no control of inheritance earnings or profit, and could not show up in court - Widows would only receive up ton 1/3 of their husbands property
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Women's Rights
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- Husbands could legally beat their wives - If ran away would be called a thief - if they murdered their husband they would be burned alive
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Source cArd
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http://www.angelfire.com/ca/HistoryGals/Chloe.html Colonial times 1700 to 1800 Citation: Colonial Times (1700-1800) - Angelfire. Retrieved March 10, 2015, from http://www.angelfire.com/ca/HistoryGals/Chloe.html.
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Source Card
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Spark Notes SparkNotes Editors. (n.d.). SparkNote on Northanger Abbey. Retrieved February 27, 2015, from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/northangerabbey/
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What is Catherine main mission?
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Although she is interested in marriage, she also is experiencing the real world by herself for the first time. She has new experiences while gossiping with others and trying to separate the false friends from the kind hearted. The naive young girl becomes more and more aware of the world.
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amiable
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agreeable; Lovable
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conciliatory
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Peacemaking
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Benevolent
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well-meaning; generous
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Quote
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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter." ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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Source Card
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"Northanger Abbey Quotes by Jane Austen - Goodreads." 2012. 10 Mar. 2015 Goodreads
