Littérature anglaise, plan, Jane Austen

I/ THE SETTING

1/ common points: -Both Lockood, Jonathan and Catherine are nervous, anxious and afraid,

                               -An invitation to go back into the past,

                               -Lockood, Jonathan and Catherine are strangers visiting somebody,

   Differences: -

2/this extrac is sheltered from unawable secret and from mysteries,

II/ THE MAIN CHARACTER

1/ She is afraid of an old man manuscript whom she has just found in this mysterious manor house.

2/In this Gothic house which seems abrtier of the unavowable secrets, Catherine's fertile imagination enters boiling.

3/Catherine does not nevertheless hesitate to surmount her fear to travel the dark and threatening hidden recesses, in search of revealing indications on the mysterious past of places and their owner.

III/ THE WRITTING

1/This Place in the suggestive name, which its imagination augurs strange and disturbing... Tired: this abbey hardly little sinister is provided in reality with all the modern comfort!

2/Satiric imitation of a serious work the subject or the processes of which we transpose comically.

-Pulled by Jane's history austen

Its silence maybe partially attributed(awarded) to its unhappy love affair, but the major reason is the moving of the Austen in 1801. They leave Stevenson for Great, a place which Jane hated. In December 1802, a wealthy(fortunate) young person suggests him(her) marrying him(it); she(it) accepts her(its) proposal of marriage but one month later, gives up it. A few months later, she(it) sells The abbey of Northanger to a publisher(editor) for 10 £. The book will never go out in his/her lifetime. 

3/This extract aiming here at the men(people), their horses and their boasting, there at the women and their passion of toilet and novels. All the ridiculous, all the frivolities are the target of the novelist, which builds one of its subtle loving comedies, full of humor and common sense. 

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