There are three main environments in which the novel, Northanger
Abbey, is set.
The initial location is Fullerton and it is from here Catherine begins
her journey. This is also the place to which Catherine returns at the
end of the narrative. By the very fact that Fullerton is located at
the start and the end of Catherine's journey, it can be used as a
comparison with the other locations in the novel.
Catherine wants to leave Fullerton, as it is not exciting enough and
certainly not as glamorous a place as the second location, Bath.
Indeed, the Allens, who own the majority of the land in Fullerton, are
happy to spend much of the year socialising in Bath. Mrs Allen takes
Catherine to Bath because "adventures do not befall a young lady in
her own village". Although Catherine has a strong desire for adventure
and may exaggerate the "sleepiness" of Fullerton, it does seem to be a
quiet and sedate place. There is little opportunity for her to meet
new people of her own age and social class and it appears that nothing
of any note ever happens.
Fullerton, does however, have positive attributes. It is the home of
Catherine's family, who are a stable and supportive unit. The people
of Fullerton are more genuine than in Bath as the permanent residences
require them to be sincere and eradicate the opportunity for the kind
of trickery Catherine encounters from Isabella Thorpe in Bath.
The second focal environment is Bath. The comparison with Fullerton
highlights the fact that Bath is an exciting place, a place filled
with visitors, rather than residents. This creates an air of
falseness, which is ironic as Bath is the genuine geographical
location, as opposed to Fullerton, which is fictional. Bath is a place
...
... middle of paper ...
... adventure. Bath is the place of fun and amusement, but also a place of
deception and dishonesty. It is the place where Catherine learns about
the harsher aspects of life through Isabella's trickery and
superficiality. In Northanger, once she is put right about her
fictitious imagined mystery regarding Mrs Tilney, Catherine finds
friendship in this solid and comfortable environment. It is also the
place where she learns of Isabella's deceit and this emphasises the
positive and truthful aspects of Northanger.
On returning to Fullerton, Catherine finds warmth and comfort in her
family after the hurt caused from the past deception. Fullerton
becomes a more exciting place with arrival of Henry and his proposal
of marriage.
Thus Austen uses the 3 principle locations to highlight ideals and
underline the transitions throughout the novel in Catherine's life.
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical narrative written by naturalist Edward Abbey. Abbey composed the account based on his personal experiences as an employee for the United States Park Service at Arches National Monument in Utah. Abbey’s anecdotal account is nonlinearly comprised of occupational experiences and renditions of the region’s folklore. These illustrations analogous because they exhibit related themes and trends associated with the author’s experiences and beliefs.
The beginning of the novel starts out with a picture of a peaceful home that is very similar to the Moor House Jane lives in while visiting her cousins. It even states in line 2 that Bronte feels like the place is familiar. There is “marshland stretched for miles” ( ln 1) outside the home like the land of England in Jane Eyre. This common setting is also connecting how much Charlotte Bronte is like her character Jane. Dunn describes Bronte as “passionate [and] assertive” (ln 12) which is much like Jane Eyre’s character. Bronte is also said to not “come back to complain or haunt” (ln 20), and she lives in a “mod...
The element of setting is used to create a definite atmosphere, and therefore, helping to create a desired mood .In Kate’s childhood, she and Matt visited the ponds regularly. They used to go “through the woods with their luxuriant growth of poison ivy, along the tracks, past the dusty boxcars lines up receive their loads of sugar beets, down the steep sandy path to the ponds themselves” (Lawson 4). Lawson has used powerful imagery to further describe the ponds. The settings of the ponds are a central part of the story. The ponds are a symbol of the tight relationship between Matt and Kate. They had spent “hundreds of hours there” (Lawson 15). Ponds were like a home to her. In the prologue, Kate stated that “there is no image of my childhood that I carry with me more clearly than that” (Lawson 4). The ponds also symbolizes Kate’s childhood. Matt and Kate were able to overcome the tragedy of their parent’s death by visiting the ponds, but however, they did not survive Matt’s “disloyalty”. The ponds later developed into the scene of the crime. Kate mentions in the book “By the following September the ponds themselves would have been desecrated twice over, as far as I was concerned, and for some years after that I did not visit them at all” (Lawson 218). Therefore, the ponds are of great significance in Crow Lake. The setting has developed from a warm, sweet, memorable place to a scene of crime in crow Lake.
It is first important to understand the background of both The Wife of Bath and Margery Kempe’s stories. The Wife of Bath was a character created by Geoffrey Chaucer who is radically different from the nonfictional character of Margery Kempe. The Wife of Bat...
The pastoral settings in Shakespeare's As You Like It, John Milton's "L'Allegro," and his "Il Penseroso" provide an escape from an urban environment. Although Shakespeare's Duke Senior and his followers physically move into a forest, they still tend to impose their urban system upon the wilderness. In "L'Allegro," Milton presents an idyllic countryside where all adversity has been safely domesticated. In "Il Penseroso," the speaker makes no attempt to change the landscape of Melancholy, but rather embraces it for its solitude and silence. All of these scenes contrast sharply with a materialistic civilization.
Wuthering Heights is a classic in which Emily Bronte presents two opposite settings using the country setting. Country settings are often used as a place of virtue and peace or of ignorance and one of primitivism as believed by many city dwellers. But, in the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte has used Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights to depict isolation and separation. Wuthering Heights setting is wild, passionate, and strong and Thrushcross Grange and its inhabitants are calm, harshly strict, and refined and these two opposite forces struggle throughout the novel.
Mountains—they are unequivocally distinctive. Some would believe that mountains are God’s creation that surpasses the heavens, and others would say that the world evolved to form such megalithic structures. Whatever the case, no other creation can match the height of Mount Everest. The tallest man-made buildings are not in relative comparison. When beholding the site of Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper in the world, an individual could never imagine a more vast creation. Burj Khalifa stands erect at over 828 meters or 2,716.5 feet. However, Mount Everest shadows this height at an astonishing 8,850 meters above sea level. What an incredible record! Now, one can consider how extraordinarily difficult it would be to climb and surpass a mountain of such stature. A mountain is formed out of many stones on top of one another. Life is comprised of many moments in a similar fashion. In the book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea, mountains are a part of ordinary life. Greg Mortenson’s mission to climb the second highest mountain, K2, quickly turned into a dramatic story of “One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time”. Each moment was a defining period of time in his life and of the lives around him.
Jonathan Swift wrote his book Gulliver’s Travels in the first half of the 1720’s. At the time he was writing much more of the “new world” had been explored and colonized, giving Swift with the ability to create a traveller to poke fun at and critique the men who had previously made themselves out to be heroes by creating a fiction often more believable than the supposed truths. Gulliver’s admiration for other societies resembles that of Hythloday and his experience in Utopia. Both of these book show how writers back in Europe wished the explorers would have been more earnest in their descriptions of societies in the new world. Swift especially used his book to comment on the current state of Europe and its politics in the new world.
... But in fact her powers and beauty cannot change the foundation of her society. Emma’s circumscription within the boundaries of her class kept her world under control. This prevents her from considering another society beyond her existence. The confusion from her failed attempts with Harriet due to her guidance, allows her to embrace reality. Jane Austen uses Emma’s character to reveal the quality in the structures of the nineteenth century society. Based on the conclusion of the novel, when Emma is forced to look beyond the limited power and beauty she has and acknowledge the existing order and structure of the early nineteenth century English society.
On a doomed quest to conquer the evil of the Dark Tower, Childe Roland wanders through a wasteland filled with barren natural images and memories of once-heroic, now-fallen friends. The poem is alarming in the way the stark, barren terrain through which Roland travels offers no sensual or imaginative detail, but more so for its unflinching portrayal of
In ‘All the Pretty Horses’ Luis states ‘among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion’, by this he means the relationship man has with nature is totally unique, it is sacred; the relationship between men is a misapprehension. In some respects the reader may agree with the statement because it is true, man’s relationship with animals and nature is fairly simple compared to man’s relationship amongst each other which is far more complex due to conflict of opinion and other complications. John Grady Cole’s relationship with Alejandra faced much turmoil and complication, one of the biggest issues they faced was the fact Alejandra’s family condemned their relationship and forbid her to be with him. To a certain extent John’s romance with Alejandra mirrors Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in respects to their forbidden love, however their story does not end in tragedy. Wordsworth shows nature to be more of a companion for man in ‘The Solitary Reaper’. The woman reaps the crops alone in the field singing with a voice so ‘thrilling’ it resonates ‘Long after it was heard no more’. Although she is lonely, she is wholly reliant upon the sustenance she receives and the relationship she has with nature. The poet proceeds to compare her to the Cuckoo and the Nightingale stating ‘No Nightingale did ever chaunt more welcome notes to weary bands’ being compared to birds with such beautiful song surely displays her oneness with nature. Unlike the ‘maiden’ Victor tries to control and dominate nature, this resentment could stem from the fact his mother died of the fever, making him go to extreme lengths in constructing this figure from different body parts to create a cre...
As Robert Miles wrote in “Horrid Shadows: the Gothic in Northanger Abbey”, “Northanger Abbey does not work with the conventions of the Gothic novel so much as it warns against the dangers of Gothic reading, in the manner of parody, the tricks of the genre are turned against itself. (133). Miles can very well be describing what Austen is poking fun at. Catherine is doing “gothic reading” though it really is not a gothic novel, only in the mind of a girl who wants to be a gothic heroine.
Fish have more known species than any other vertebrate and their habitats range from the smallest freshwater streams to the deepest parts of the seafloor. They grow from a fraction of an inch to 50 feet and live anywhere from the arctic waters to the tropics. Fish skeletons can either be made of nothing but cartilage or nothing but bone. They can look very awkward or very majestic.
Robert Frost wrote the poem “The Pasture” in 1913. He gives the reader a springtime pasture for the setting. There are leaves on the ground, and cows are roaming the land. Also, Frost gives the reader the feeling of springtime with the image of a thawed pond and baby calf (Savant 3). Frost used this setting to convey a soft setting in order to connect with the reader. The speaker of the poem is talking to an unknown character. He tells the other unknown character that he was cleaning the pasture and he will stop only to rake or to watch the water. The speaker says that he will not be gone long. At this moment, he invites the unknown character to join him. Next the speaker says that he is going to get a little calf with its mother. The calf is so small that it totters when its mother licks him. Finally, the speaker explains that it will not be a long trip to the pasture and invited the reader to join him (Savant 2).
In between those chapters, there are also sub-chapters on the top of each page, such as clothing, shelter, building the house, architecture, and furniture in Economy.