ASSIGNMENT
                FIVEAPPROACHES                           LITERARY CRITICISM
       
         THE MYTH IN JANE AUSTEN




Submitted by,
V.T.Batric Vinnarasi
Reg.No.170461
I M.A.English (Aided)


1.The Myth in Jane Austen is written by                              .
                         Geoffrey Gorer
2.Geoffrey Gorer is a -----  critic.?
                          Psychological 
3.Jane Austen belongs to the later half of the          ----------  century.
Eighteenth
4.Jane Austen’s father was a   ---------    .
Country clergyman
5.During Jane Austen’s youth, the-----novel was at its height.
Gothic
6.The Gothic novel was characterized by Geoffrey Gorer
7.Jane Austen’s first novel was .
Love and Friendship
8.Jane Austen’s last novel is .
Persuasion
9.Name the heroines in Jane Austen’s major novels                              .                                 
Marianne, Elizabeth, Fanny and Emma
10.Jane Austen’s heroine marry                               .
Surrogate fathers
11.Knightley stands in an overtly relationship to Emma.
Paternal
12.Fanny Price marries the father-figure                           .
Edmund Bertram
13.Jane Austen’s heroines are victims of                               .
Electra complex
14.‘He is old enough to be my father’. Who says this? About whom?                                                                                                             
  Marianne about Knightley
15.Emma flirts with                            .
Frank Churchill
16.Darcy is the owner of                          .
 Pemberley
17.Elizabeth’s mother is a                          .
stupid woman
18.The central myth in Jane Austen’s novels is        .
a young girl despising her mother and marrying a father surrogate
19.Jane Austen debunks .
romantic love
20.Persuasion is the only novel of Jane Austen in which           . `
a young girl marries a young man
21.A surrogate father is .
a substitute father
22.Who wrote The Myth in Jane Austen?
Geoffrey Gorer
23.What is the Myth in Jane Austen?
That a young girl can live happily with a middle-aged father-figure is the myth in Jane Austen.
24.What is the difference between persuasion and the other novels of Jane Austen?
Only in Persuasion a young girl marries a passionate young man. In all the other novels of Jane Austen, a young girl marries a sensible, middle-aged father-figure.
25.Who could have prevented Jane Austen from marrying her charming lover? Why could she have refused him?
Jane Austen might have refused to marry her charming Lover because she could not bear the idea of leaving her father alone.
26.Why is Northanger Abbey considered a Gothic novel?
Northanger Abbey is considered a Gothic novel because it is full of exaggerated emotions and unbelievable happenings.
27.Who has three mother?
Fanny Price has three mother
28.What are the four novels of Jane Austen discussed by Gorer in Myth in Jane Austen?
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma.
29.Name the heroines from the four novels
Marianne, Elizabeth, Fanny Price, Emma.
30.The order in which the books were written is .
important to my thesis.