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Udolpho and Northanger Abbey Northanger Abbey is Jane Austen’s direct comment on the gothic novel. By creating the characters in this novel “types” instead of well-rounded characters, she makes them serve as representative of characters in gothic novels. Austen also explicitly comments on the gothic novel by references to the… 754 words Evil Villains in…

This novel, though it is often considered quite lighthearted, touches some of the very important topics for its time. Mostly the readers see the average coming-of-age story of a young girl experiencing her first love. But the background is equally important to the main storyline: we see that feelings even of the young people are…