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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe writer in this thesis is trying to analyse Jane
Austen's settings and characters in Northanger Abbey and
Mansfield Park as they reveal the dangers of worldliness
which could lead human beings into self-destruction. In
the two novels, Austen describes the characteristics of
big cities and countrysides, how values result in
different attitudes toward life to the inhabitants. As
in Northanger Abbeyf the worldly values in the big city
cause the urban to seem to be unagreeable in their
conducts; whereas in Mansfield Park, such attitude has
become a threat to the structure of the society. Indeed
since the values of the urban settings are in contrast to
those of the rural settings, the characters of the urban
are also very different from the countryman. However,
through the analysis, the writer finds out that although
setting moulds character, everybody still has a choice to
follow their moral conscience instead of merely the
common social behaviors.