EN 3193 Lecture Notes - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Antinovel
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3 ways to approach northanger abbey: gothic parody (the journey home from northanger abbey, when. Was suspected that novels were dangerous and had readers believe. that what they read was true. So that"s why austen is writing a realistic novel. Sorrows of young werther by johann wolfgang von goethe actually had readers believing that you should kill yourself in honour of the one who you love who you can"t love. (married, dating someone else, etc. ) The book is about one man who kills himself because he"s in love with a woman who"s married. Gothic fictions was criticized as quite dangerous especially for women. Such novels don"t prepare women readers for the realities of life. Mary wollstonecraft"s vindication of the rights of women which divides views for or against. Main argument: women"s inferiority or weakness doesn"t happen naturally it is produced. It all has to do with education and how a woman was raised and taught.
