French Revolution and the English Gothic Novel discussion of women's nature by having a man with the power to create new life instead of the woman, and its consequences. Jane Austen also engaged in this discussion in her gothic novel, Northanger Abbey. Catherine Morland, the protagonist of the novel, has to confront the workings of the political and economic system that involves women as chess pieces in marriages and of power relationships, after her visions of romance are over. In this novel one can also see how the mind can take a truth by means other than texts, many times removed from actual events. This speaks to
Northanger Abbey (2007 film) and it marked only the second filmed adaptation of the book; with the first being made and broadcast in 1986. Andrew Davies, the screenwriter who adapted "Pride and Prejudice" for the BBC, was commissioned to write the script for "Northanger Abbey". He had previously written an adaptation of the novel for Weekend Television in 1998. It was optioned by Harvey Weinstein for Miramax Films and drafts from other writers were added, before the project was abandoned. Davies told "The Daily Telegraph's" Hugh Davies that "Northanger Abbey" was much more straightforward to adapt than "Pride and Prejudice", which was "quite a