![]() ![]() ![]() Allen attention to the physical, outward display of wealth largely fall out, but General Tilney's outrage at Catherine being of lower social standing than he had assumed her to be remains. Isabella's desire to marry someone rich, and Mrs. Though the theme of class and social standing is reoccurring throughout most, if not all, of Jane Austen's novels, Robbins' and Timmons' adaptations focuses on the importance of it more so than the elements of Gothic parody, which figured more prominently in the 1817 text. There are no signifcant variances from the original text, and the comic culminates in an exquisitely detailed full page spread of the wedding of Catherine and Henry. The rest of the comic is full of elegant ball scenes, cut up by the manipulation of Catherine by the Thorpes, and Catherine's dreams of Henry Tilney and her most recent obsession, the novel The Mysteries of Udolpho. ![]() In the same way that Catherine is essentially thrown into high society, so too is the reader taken from an idyllic scene of Catherine reading in a garden, to Catherine awkwardly navigating around a crowded ballroom. Not too much time is spent developing the character of Catherine Morland - the audience simply learns that she is an "uncommon heroine" and that she takes great pleasure in reading. Anne Timmons's adaptation of Northanger Abbey sticks closely to the original plot line of the novel. ![]()
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