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Northanger Abbey Novel to Film

Follow two scenes from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey novel through the adaptation by Andrew Davies to the final film directed by Jon Jones. What does Davies add in the screenplay, especially with Catherine's dream sequence in Example #1? Davies builds dialogue from a slender narrative thread in Example #2. Was this scene an important addition?