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Essay on Intersubjective Relationships
A relationship of realization flanked by two people is sometimes called intersubjectivity. In such an association, a person is directly aware of the presence of the other’s consciousness. This occurs commonly in relationships between teacher and learner, parent and child, therapist and client, and between lovers, for example. Such a relationship is established and maintained via physical interactions between the people, using language, gestures, touches, etc. You can’t have a relationship with somebody if you never interact with them in some way, because people are physically embodied. Intersubjectivity is a relationship of consciousness that rides on the medium of physical interaction. The paper compares three different texts and the intersubjectivity of the characters within these texts.
Taking into consideration the novel “Northanger Abbey”, which was the first novel Jane Austen wrote. It is moreover the novel most closely related to the novels that prejudiced her reading, and parodies some of those novels, particularly Anne Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho. In creating Catherine, the heroine of Northanger Abbey, Austen creates the heroine of a Gothic novel. Both Austen and Catherine portray Catherine's life in heroic terms—Austen humorously, and Catherine seriously, especially when she suspects General Tilney of murdering his wife.
Because Austen couches her portrayal of Catherine in irony, Catherine is realistically portrayed as lacking in experience and perception, unlike the heroines of Gothic and romance novels. Catherine fails to recognize the obvious developing relationship between her brother James and her friend Isabella; she fails to recognize Isabella's true nature until long after it has hurt her brother; she accidentally leads John Thorpe into thinking she loves him; and most significantly, she embarrasses herself in front of Henry Tilney when he finds out she suspects his father of murder. Despite the fact that Catherine is an avid reader of novels, she is inexperienced at reading people, and this is what causes many of the problems she encounters......
