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Emma
We are at the start of Jane Austen's novel, Emma. Austen is introducing the character of Emma Woodhouse, who is: handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed...
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Jane Austen wrote only a handful of novels, and each one of them has many unique and memorable characters. Among the novels, however, the characters tend to embody particular types. A strong female...
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Mr. Martin and Mr. Elton are primarily opposites in terms of manner. Mr. Martin is described as plain, down-to-earth farmer. Although he is clearly doing very well financially, Emma sneers at him...
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Jane Austen deals with a fairly narrow slice of the English class system, from the upper ranks of the yeomanry and professional classes to the landed gentry and the lower reaches of the...
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To separate elegance from manners is just the type of precise endeavor at which Jane Austen excelled. It seems at first glance that elegance, since it includes correct deportment and behavior,...
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In Emma, Jane Austen employs a third-person omniscient narrator, a choice which allows the author to provide a broad perspective of the novel’s setting and insights into the characters. This...
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Two of the key themes that Jane Austen explores in Emma are the importance of personal integrity and the harmful effects of meddling. Emma begins as an adolescent girl who is stuck in childhood but...
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Emma does find Harriet's plump, blond-haired, blue-eyed prettiness appealing and also likes Harriet's pliable personality, which eagerly goes along with all Emma has to say and all that Emma wishes...
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Yes, Emma is a novel of marriage and courtship in early-nineteenth-century English society. The novel opens, for instance, with the marriage of Emma's governess, Miss Taylor, who becomes Mrs....
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Jane Austen’s Emma ends with two weddings in quick succession, both performed, perhaps without any particular enthusiasm, by Mr. Elton. The first unites Harriet with Robert Martin; the second, Emma...
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In chapter 1 of Jane Austen’s Emma, the character of Miss Taylor, recently married and now Mrs. Weston, is introduced soon after Emma herself. Jane Austen writes: Sixteen years had Miss Taylor...
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One important minor character in Jane Austen’s novel is Frank Churchill. He fits Alex Woloch’s characterization of an eccentric in that he disrupts life in Highbury and has a strong...
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Emma, in Emma, resists authority throughout most of the novel. First, she resists the unspoken social authority that (despite her father's fear of change and desire to keep him with her) says that...
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No, in this perhaps most misleading of Austen's novels, Mr. Knightley cannot be characterized as a reliable character, in the sense that we can not be sure that the portrait of him we receive is...
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You will, of course, have your own opinions, but the following ideas may help you to formulate these. First, it is important to separate the two issues. Whether or not you like the protagonist need...
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There is no doubt that Mr. Knightley has blamed and lectured Emma, but the reader might feel that many other women in England might have borne his strictures with more equanimity than Emma does....
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Like Jane Austen's other social satires, Emma relies heavily on irony, especially situational irony. Listed below are examples of the novel's use of the major types of irony. 1. Situational Irony...
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Jane Austen's novel Emma is full of lively characters who "have resources" of inner strength and joy. While they may be saddened, they do not succumb to modern-day demonstrations of depression or...
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Austen uses gender stereotypes to show how people in Highbury treat other people unfairly based on gender. For example, Emma treats Miss Bates unkindly based on the stereotypes she holds about...
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This is a big question, but in brief, through her depiction of the village of Higbury as seen through Emma Woodhouse's eyes, Austen offers a sharp outline of class distinctions in Regency society...
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The tone of the novel Emma is both ironic and sympathetic. There are many examples of the ironic tone in the novel. For example, Emma thinks herself to be an excellent matchmaker. She sets her eyes...
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Emma could be considered a feminist novel because it highlights the constraints faced by women in the small, fictional village of Highbury in the early 1800s. Emma, the main character, is wealthy,...
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The education of Emma Woodhouse constitutes an important—perhaps the most important—element in the story. The prominence of the theme can be seen at the start of the book, where we're given a...
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Emma is filled with important quotes, and various readers will pick and rank various quotes differently; however, I think a safe bet is to pick quotes that highlight particular themes in the book...
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Mr. Knightley tells Emma quite forcefully that whatever she might think, Mr. Elton will not marry Harriet. First, he notes that Harriet is the illegitimate daughter of nobody-knows-who. Being...
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You are correct when you suggest that you need to materially alter the plot to develop a different ending. The way Austen constructs her novel, there is no ending but the one she has written. There...
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Central to understanding this excellent and witty novel is recognising the very different way in which marriage was though of in Austen's day. Marriage was linked inextricably to social status....
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Marxist theory explores the ideas of socio-economic oppression and, its antithesis, socio-economic power from the perspective and within the framework of economic base and superstructure. In other...
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Emma, like many young people, thinks that she knows everything, especially what is best for the important people in her life. Sometimes Emma's motivations are altruistic, that is, she wants what...
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Austen presents many layers of social status in each of her novels, and Emma and Pride and Prejudice are no exceptions. One of the most memorable representations of social status in Emma is where...
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The Box Hill episode in Emma is the turning point in the novel for several of the characters. There is a strong tension between what the party hope to achieve and what actually happens, indicated...
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Jane Austen's Emma is set in the countryside around London in a small town called Highbury during Regency England. Hartfield, the house where Emma and her father live, is separated from Highbury by...
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There are many examples which show the themes of love and marriage in the novel Emma. Emma considers herself to be a skilled matchmaker. She seeks to make those around her happy by finding them a...
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This simile comes from a fragment of a critical opinion by Twain on Austen titled "Jane Austen." A fragment is a piece that was begun by an author and, for one reason or another, never completed....
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Emma Woodhouse is a round character in Jane Austen's Emma. A round character is one who undergoes some sort of change throughout the course of a story, usually relating to their moral beliefs,...
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In Emma, Jane Austen creates an entire English village, and snobbery is part of its makeup. Emma, the main character, is a snob with an acute consciousness of her own rank as daughter of one of the...
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In Emma, women are largely limited by fortune and social status. They have less mobility and fewer options than men and are limited to what they must do or can do in order to make a living and...
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Irony is shown when Emma considers her attraction to Mr. Churchill. She is such a match maker toward Harriet that it is ironic she can't tell when she herself is in love. This irony is compounded...
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On the face of it, there seems to be very little way in which a novel that spends so much of its time poking fun at the central female character because of her belief that she is a matchmaker could...
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Suffice it to say that no character who marries for status or for financial gain is portrayed as having a happy marriage in Jane Austen's novels. The imprudence of marrying for security is shown...
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Emma depicts small-town life in the town of Highbury, a place where gossip travels fast. Gossip is one form of misinformation (as well as information) in this novel. Little is as it initially seems...
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Harriet is much dependent on Emma in Jane Austen's Emma. She is has far less status than Emma, who is the daughter of one of the first families in Highbury, with a fortune of ten thousand pounds....
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Jane Austen's novel Emma is written in the third person. Although the narrator is omniscient, we are generally restricted to Emma's point of view, and therefore, like Emma herself, the readers...
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The moral code that is clearly the message of this witty yet thoughtful novel points to the dangers of trusting in our instincts and imagination rather than in the facts of the situation. What...
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Something that is didactic is something that intends to purposefully instruct with moral instruction. One step further, a didactic piece of literature intentionally subordinates aesthetic qualities...
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One thing that can help in understanding this passage is that Jane Austen the author chose not to marry, and when she wrote this passage was already 39 years old: certainly the sign of an "old...
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Humour (humor US) is (1) the quality of being amusing or laughable. (2) a temperament or disposition given to caprice, or unexplained impulsiveness. (3) to try to gratify or indulge someone eles's...
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The strangest connection between marriage partners and social status is in that between Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill. Jane is the daughter of Miss Bates's sister, who was Mrs. Bates's younger...
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The climax of Jane Austen's novel Emma can be found towards the ending chapters, namely chapter 45. It is the moment when, after a rough encounter with Mr. Knightley, she realizes that she has...
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To answer this, it is necessary to clarify historical time periods. Jane Austen lived the first part of her life (1775-1817) during the reign of King George III, the King against whom the American...
