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Which common Gothic theme is evident in this excerpt from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey?
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen (excerpt)
"Her picture, I suppose," blushing at the consummate art of her own question, "hangs in your father's room?"
"No; it was intended for the drawing-room; but my father was dissatisfied with the painting, and for some time it had no place. Soon after her death
obtained it for my own, and hung it in my bed-chamber-where I shall be happy to show it you; it is very like." Here was another proof. A portrait-
very like-of a departed wife, not valued by the husband! He must have been dreadfully cruel to her!
O A. damsel in distress
OB.
murder
O C. insanity
O D. fading beauty
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