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  • Essay / The Narrative Voice of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey expresses the powerful narrative voice. The narrative voice she uses is different from other novels. Most authors try to hide their presence in their novels but Jane Austen does not try to hide hers. His presence in the novel is so clear. For example, “the advantages of natural madness in a beautiful girl have already been set forth by the capital pen of the sister author, and I will only add her treatment of the subject” (Austen 81). She tries not to mislead her reader while reading the novel. Instead, she informs the reader that the book itself is just a novel. Its goal is not to convince the reader and correct their story, but to understand the imperfection of language, because language does not always tell the truth or sufficiently for the truth. In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Austen portrays her heroine, Catherine as a young innocent. girl who doesn't understand the language. She is too young not to understand that words can have different meanings. Catherine constantly misjudges the people around her. She cannot interpret what ...