Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Imagination vs Reality
- Catherine is shaped by her
experience reading Gothic novels
- Only by seperating herself from such
fiction can Catherine truly grow
- Northanger Abbey doesn't
fit the Gothic image
Catherine envisioned
- Her first night in Northanger Abbey
revolves around the gothic image
- Catherine wrongly assumes the General's relevance
in Mrs Tilney's death, and questions whether she is
fact dead or is being held captive by the General