Styles and themes of Jane Austen In "Sense and Sensibility", Austen experiments extensively for the first time with this technique. For example, As Austen scholar Norman Page explains, "the first sentence is straight narrative, in the 'voice' of the [narrator]; the third sentence is normal indirect speech; but the second and fourth are what is usually described as free indirect speech." In these two sentences, Austen represents the inner thoughts of the character and creates the illusion that the reader is entering the character's mind. She often uses indirect speech for background characters. However, Page writes that "for Jane Austen ... the supreme virtue of free
Translation of the Eighteenth century Gothic novel the realms of authorship and creditability. "Becoming Jane" is a film that reaches beyond the Gothic parodies Jane Austen authored, and investigates her life that led up to her becoming an old, unmarried author. In this same metafiction vein, Czech surrealist short film director Jan Švankmajer produced a mockumentary in 1979 that aimed to explain the European geographical origins of Horace Walpole's Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto" Translation of the Eighteenth century Gothic novel The most notable novels from the 18th-century Gothic genre were written by British authors in English and translated throughout history into other languages, but other