Which common Gothic theme Is evident In this excerpt from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey? Northanger Abbey
by jane Austen (excerpt)

"Her plcture I suppose," blushing at the consummate art of her own question, "hangs in your father's room
No; It was intended for the drawing-roomy but my father was dssatisled with the painting, and for some time t had no place. Soon after her
death I obtained t for my own, and hung t in my bed-chamber-where Ishall be happy to show It you; It is very like" Here was another proof. A
portralt-very like-of a departed wife, not valued by the husband! He must have been dreadfuly cruel to her!
OA damsel in distress
OB. murder
OC insanity
OD. fading beauty

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,

what excerpt? i would generally think a.

the two sonnets of sidney most closely follows the division between the octave and the sestet are the astrophel and stella sonnets.