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Catherine Morland. The protagonist of Northanger Abbey. Catherine is seventeen years old, and has spent all her life in her family's modest home in the rural area of Fullerton. While Catherine has read many novels (particularly Gothic novels), she is very inexperienced at reading people.
Both Austen and Catherine portray Catherine's life in heroic terms—Austen humorously, and Catherine seriously, especially when she suspects General Tilney of murdering his wife.
Jan 15, 2008 · When Henry Tilney speaks these words in Austen’s funny and touching novel, Northanger Abbey, the story’s heroine, Catherine Morland, gets a serious crush. (Truth is, Henry had her at hello.)
It starred Lola Herrera as Catalina (Catherine) Morland, Alicia Hermida as Isabela Thorpe, and Pepe Martín as Henry Tilney. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] The A&E Network and the BBC released the television adaptation Northanger Abbey in 1987.
- Jane Austen
- 1817
Catherine Morland is the heroine of Jane Austen 's 1817 novel Northanger Abbey. A modest, kind-hearted ingénue, she is led by her reading of Gothic literature to misinterpret much of the social world she encounters.
Tilney, with his teasing yet kind-hearted mentorship of Catherine, has been considered the nicest of Austen's heroes. [1] At the same time, with his knowledge of muslin and of Gothic novels, he is the least masculine of them. [2]
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Catherine is someone we laugh at, but she is someone we root for as well. Through Catherine, Austen not only points out the assumptions and absurdities of the Gothic novel, but also makes Catherine the focal point of one of the novel's main concerns: growing up.
