Emma Questions and Answers
What is the main theme of Emma?
Explain how the relationship between Emma and Miss Taylor changes over time.
What are the setting and atmosphere of Jane Austen's Emma?
How are women limited by society in Emma?
What is the climax of the novel Emma?
What is the relationship between Emma and Harriet?
How does Jane Austen's Emma demonstrate the various forms of irony?
What does the following sentence mean in Emma by Jane Austen? "The Woodhouses were first in consequence there."
How could Jane Austen's Emma be considered a feminist novel?
How does the setting of Emma impact the characters' actions and the plot?
What narrative techniques does Jane Austen employ in Emma?
What is the moral code that Jane Austen constructs in Emma?
What is Jane Austen's tone in Emma?
What examples show the themes of love and marriage in Emma by Jane Austen?
How are gender stereotypes illustrated in Emma?
Is Emma a unique Jane Austen character? Why or why not?
Is Emma, the main character of this novel, a round character or a flat character?
What might be the difference between a didactic and a non-didactic reading of Emma according to Booth's discussion of "Narrative" in The Company We Keep?
Why does Emma say that she will never marry in Jane Austen's Emma?
Compare and contrast the film Emma (the Gwyneth Paltrow version) with the novel Emma by Jane Austen.
How would I explain that Emma is a snob in Emma?
What social and political attitudes or traditions does Jane Austen wish to change in Emma?
Please write about Emma's education in Emma.
Why does Miss Bates talk so much?
Compare Miss Bates and Mrs. Elton in Emma.
Is Emma a coming-of-age novel?
Is Emma a Feminist Novel? If so, how?
What are some of the main themes in the novel Emma? Discuss each one briefly.
Explain how Jane Austen's novel Emma shows marriage and social classes in the nineteenth century.
In Emma by Jane Austen, what does the first sentence say about how Austen portrays Emma Woodhouse, and which themes are revealed in the first sentence?
Discuss Jane Austen's attitude towards love and marriage demonstrated in Emma.
In Emma, Mr. Knightley says to Emma, "I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it like no other woman in England might have borne it" (page 403). To what extent do you agree? Use examples from the whole text to support your response.
What does humour mean and how is this applied to Emma by Jane Austen?
What is the place and social role of the governess in Jane Austen's Emma?
In which way is the Box Hill episode (volume 3, chapter 7) relevant in Jane Austen's Emma? Why is the Box Hill episode so important? In which way is it relevant for development of the characters/story, especially regarding Emma?
How does the essay "Aiding Impoverished Gentlewomen: Power and Class in Emma" by Beth Fowkes Tobin illuminate Marxist literary theory in Emma by Jane Austen? Excerpt from "Aiding Impoverished Gentlewomen : Power and Class in Emma" by Beth Fowkes Tobin"Ruth Perry argues that the capitalization of the hand industries--'the arranging of industry by middlemen who hired labor and sold product'--created the need for larger work places and a more consolidate work force, both of which contributes to pushing women out of the work force and into a life of leisure (38). Perry also argues that as women lost their roles as producers in the economy, they also lost important legal rights, such as the right to inherit land and ... belongings ..., the right as married women to engage in transactions ... and the right to manage their own property, since this became the husband's on marriage (30-33). "Losing access to skilled trades and professions left eighteenth-century women entirely dependent on men for their livelihood, ...." (Tobin 476)
What is a summary of Emma by Jane Austen?
I need a short plot overview of Emma by Jane Austen, please.
What does this quote (the first line of Ch 22, or Vol II Ch iv.) mean? "Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of." - i think it may also involve Mrs. Churchill somehow.
What is the meaning of this passage? "I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! -- the proper sport of boys and girls -- but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable" I'm doing a close reading and could use all the help I can get!
What is the connection between marriage and social status in the three marriages in Jane Austen's Emma: the marriages of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill, Harriet and Robert Martin, Emma and Mr. Knightley?
Why is Mr. Knightley confident that Mr. Elton won't choose Harriet in Emma?
How can I write another ending, an alternate ending, of Emma by Jane Austen? The story is already perfect and has a happy ending, but I have to write an alternate ending. So, please, can anyone suggest a plot for the different ending?
What are four extremely important quotes from Emma by Jane Austen?
Is the subject of Emma only marriage and matchmaking?
What is the role of gossip in Emma and how does it drive the plot of the novel?
Do you agree with the statement that Emma is a novel of marriage and courtship in early English society? Illustrate your answer with examples from the novel.
How can Emma be considered a novel of education?
What is the relationship of form and meaning in Emma by Jane Austen?
How do we know that Emma loves Mr. George Knightley in Jane Austen's Emma, and where in the book does she say so?
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