m interesting. The purpose of the novel is to show that it isn't necessary to be an extraordinary person to be able to experience life, Catherine is the epitome of ordinary and all of these wonderful things happen to her during her trip.
Samuel Johnson's Rambler No. 4 was an attack on fiction and it wasn't just because the novel was considered ordinary. The Rambler attacked fiction for a number of different reasons. First, the novel was directed at weak targets. "These books are written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to who
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