LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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She is mature and realistic.
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She is immature and has difficulty recognizing the difference between fact and fiction.
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She is a matchmaker trying to set up romances between her friends, all the while unable to find true love herself.
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B and C
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Detailed explanation-1: -A seventeen-year-old raised in a rural parsonage with nine brothers and sisters, Catherine Morland is open, honest, and naïve about the hypocritical ways of society. Her family is neither rich nor poor, and she is unaware of how much stock many people put in wealth and rank.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Catherine is an unlikely heroine, too, because her person, meaning, her looks, go against the fictional norm. Most heroines in Gothic novels were stunningly beautiful, virtuous, dutiful, accomplished, and modest.
Detailed explanation-4: -Living in a culture that preferred its women to be simpering or silent, Catherine directly voices her thoughts and feelings, and being able to speak her mind makes her a feminist. The power of Catherine’s speech manifests itself not only in her ability to speak her thoughts and feelings directly.