Cathrine is in a new place, shes there in Bath trying to have fun to have fun, she is excited, this is her first time out in the real world she is not paying attention to everyone's every word, shes desperate to find someone she knows. I am sorry but if I went to Miami by my self and didn't know anyone and I finally found some friends I would probably subconsciously look over some of their nuances es so I could have a good time. We know Isabella is a egocentric witch because we have dealt with lots egocentric witches in our lives, Cathrine has not and I think that we should give her a break. I am very proud of her because once someone's ways have been revealed she doesn't just forgive them like a little lap dog. She has a very distinct moral code like Ned. For example when Isabella writes her letter, despite Isabella's plea to innocence, she stands by her brother and realizes that Isabella has no heart (173). We have all met our first Isabella before and probably got played,but then we learned from our mistake, let Cathrine learn from her's and stop hating! lol
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Stop Hating on Cathrine!
Everyone needs to stop acting like they have never been in Cathrine's position. I think it is easy to say that Cathrine is dumb or an idiot when one is looking from a bird's eye view and the narrator is putting in extra details onto every comment made, back ground info etc. Those little descriptions don't happen in real life. As a reader we have time to stop and realize something someone said is mean, but Cathrine is actually in the mix with all this. I think its safe to say that everyone has been deceived by someone you really thought was your friend, a boy or a girl like you and you did not realize they did. Sometimes even other people tell you that person is not good or that person really likes you ( like your parents). I know there are friends I had in middle school, that I am like, "did I really hang out with that person?!" I know that Isabella is close to our age but really you have to think of her like a freshmen in high school or something because she has not really gotten to understand how the social world works.
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I love how enthusiastic you are in defending Catherine, and I think you have some good points. It's important that we take a step back and evaluate Catherine and her situations with how we would actually respond if we were in her situation. I am very proud of Catherine, though, as we see her maturing and not being as naive as she was at the beginning of the novel. After she reads the letter Isabella sends to her, "its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood, struck her from the very first" (172). It could be that Catherine is now away from Isabella's influence, or perhaps Mr. Tilney has had some affect on taking her head out of the books and introducing her to reality, but regardless, Catherine's eyes are finally opened and her mind is clear to view things without romanticizing them like she had been all throughout the novel.
ReplyDeleteI certainly agree with your blog post that readers should stop hating Clara. Though there are certain situations in the book where Catherine's thrill for gothic adventure make her come to farfetched conclusions , we readers are also somewhat susceptible to Catherine's tendencies. In one discussion about this book, many assumed that Northanger Abbey would have a role in a tragic event that will occur sometime in the novel. As most of us arrived in the scene where Catherine visits Northanger Abbey, we assumed that some hair-raising "adventure" or tragic occurrence would take place. This is exactly what Catherine assumed when she first entered Northanger Abbey. She assumed that an old abbey was certainly a place where mysterious secrets would be revealed. Yet in the end, nothing hair-raising or tragic occurs in the novel, embarrassing Catherine and disappointing readers. In this case, we readers also shared Catherine's fallacious assumption that a dark abbey with rooms that a great General fears to enter indicates a mysterious secret that will be a perfect setting for a thrilling adventure or a dramatic tragedy. We also share Catherine's folly and must not "hate," "despise," or "mock" Catherine.
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