Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey": Is Catherine Morland an Ideal Heroine?

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Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey": Is Catherine Morland an Ideal Heroine?

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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: Content
I. Introduction
II. Analysis and Interpretation
1. Catherine's Qualifications
2. Catherine's Weaknesses
III. Conclusion
IV. Bibliography

I. Introduction
In the British fiction of the nineteenth century female protagonists were especially outstanding and
not only used by Jane Austen, who wrote about Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse or Catherine
Morland, just to name a few of them, but also by Sir Walter Scott with his heroine Jeanie Deans (cf.
Morgan 559). Many other authors of the nineteenth century chose a heroine as a main character and
not a hero, even if there are very well men participating in the story, but they only have a minor role
and represent the counterpart to the women (cf. Morgan 559).
Now the question may arise why especially in that century women played the major role in
the novels whereas before and after that the protagonists had mostly been male (cf. Morgan 560).
(...)Instead, it is
to take a closer look at one of these heroines, which is Catherine Morland. The aim of this work is
to decide whether she is an ideal heroine or not. To come to a decision it is necessary to analyse her
character as well as her actions.
Since the whole story, as well as all the other protagonists, are set around her, the reader gets
to know how Catherine feels, how she thinks, and especially learns a lot about her likes and
dislikes. We do not get as much information about other characters as we get about Catherine. But if
we look closer at the person of Catherine, it becomes questionable whether it is justified to award
the title of an ideal heroine to her. The reader accompanies her through her whole stay in Bath and
Northanger Abbey and has a chance to observe her behaviour in crucial situations. This observation
is often bilateral, as on