What We Can Learn

From this novel we can learn that what we read or watch can impact our lives and the way that we think. Catherine filled her imagination with scenes and stories from gothic novels so much that she began to believe that they were true. Everything around her in Northanger Abbey suddenly became a part of her own gothic novel as if she were the heroine who had to solve everything. Ordinary objects, passageways and storms became suspicious and mysterious and she could no longer see them as anything but the newest mystery to be solved. This is applicable to our own lives because when we read books or watch movies, we can sometimes get swept under the impression that it is the way that it is in real life. It can be dangerous when these two worlds of fiction and non-fiction collide and it can become difficult to sort out what is true from what is not. This is why we need to keep these two worlds separate. It  a great thing to expand your imagination and engage in books and media, but we just need to make sure that we are filling our minds with the right kinds of things.