Emma

An analysis of women's role in society through the books "Emma" by Jane Austen and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. Throughout history women have played important roles in society. Women have gone through much adversity to get where they are today. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte are some the pioneers of women's literature. Each shows their different aspects of a women's role in society in their books Emma by Austen and Jane Eyre by Bronte. In both of these books…...

In this essay, I am going to give my views on the title. I am going to do it by considering the presentation of the courtship and/or marriage of two couples. The couples I will use are Harriet Smith and Robert Martin and Emma Woodhouse and Frank Churchill. Although this partnership of Emma is not 'realised' in the novel, it is proposed and pushed by Mr and Mrs Weston. I will also look at the text in relation to how…...

In this passage, Jane Austen's style mostly contains a combination of language, with the third person and past tense, associated with the narrator's perspective, irony and tone. Her style is direct and subtle, while noticeably dropping hints of what is truly happening, throughout the novel. Her style also reveals concerns such as mystery, suspicion and humour. The passage opens with a very descriptive paragraph, which sets the scene. It is subtle and to the point, creating an instant emotion, while…...

Emma is of social hierarchy and is living is a society governed by strict rules to rank and place, she is very much aware of her high status in Highbury. Mr Woodhouse and Mr Knightley, as substantial landowners, are first in prominence. The land they own was inherited by them from their families. This marks them as gentlemen. High rank in society was dictated more by family history than current wealth, and this is one of Emma's objections to Mrs…...

The two chapters that I am going to be looking at are chapter forty two and forty three. Before these chapters, it is established that Emma is "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition...... with very little to distress or vex her". Furthermore we learn that Emma is in the class of the gentry and lives in Hartfield which intern due to society beliefs at the time encourage her to believe that her status makes her…...

When Jane Austen wrote her novel Emma, women had very limited options available to them for bettering their positions in life. As shown in the novel, the primary method for securing one’s future as a woman was through marriage. A “good marriage” could raise a woman to a higher social or economic level, but this usually could only be achieved if she were intelligent and clever. Clever word games were a way for women to reveal or conceal their feelings…...

After Emma declines his offer of marriage, Mr Elton - a man of the cloth in Highbury - disappears in search of a better match, and returns a few months later to proudly present his 'beautiful, quite beautiful' nightmarish bride. She has all the qualities he should desire in a woman and a wife, and chooses to ignore her faults as much as he does his own. Mrs Elton, as a character, is provided as a source of comedy, to…...

"Emma", by Jane Austen, is an example of the literary style "bildungsroman", which is a novel focusing on the self-improvement and knowledge-gaining of a character. Austen's eponymous heroine Emma Woodhouse must undergo a series of life-altering experiences in order to become more knowledgeable about the world around her, and also gain more understanding of herself. This is done through a series of crisis and hard-hitting aftermaths. Chapter 16 is the first "traumatic aftermath" which Emma finds herself experiencing. After the…...

“Had she intended ever to marry him, it might have been worthwhile to pause and consider, and try to understand the value of his preference, and the character of his temper”. Discuss the significance of the relationship between Emma and Frank Churchill in the light of this comment. Jane Austen explores the themes of love, social class and misperception in Emma. Emma and Frank Churchill’s relationship is based on lies and deceit. Emma see’s Frank as a potential love interest,…...

Within Emma by Jane Austen, it can be said that the class system in the society of Highbury is depicted as a realistic portrait of the society which Austen lived in (Society in 'Emma,' CUNY Brooklyn). The text depicts the societal culture of the upper classes and its ideals through the interrelationships between characters and the social reception and perception of their actions within the text - more specifically, towards their ideas and actions towards marriage as a social institution.…...

In this study I chose to compare the strong willed characters of Emma Woodhouse from Jane Austen's Emma, and Muriel Spark's eccentric Edinburgh schoolteacher in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Understandably the social and historical context of these novels is very different. When Emma was written in eighteenteen-sixteen, workingwomen were often scorned upon - women were expected to quietly pass their time caring for their children and looking after the home. In stark contrast to this, Miss Jean Brodie,…...

Amy Heckerling's 1995 film "Clueless" is a parallel of Jane Austin's 19th century "Emma" and uses a variation of film techniques to represent the characters. Such examples of these techniques are narrative structure, social context, stereotypes and target audience. The plot of "Clueless" unfolds as the heroine Cher Horowitz, played by Alicia Silverstone, discovers the meaning of life after being rejected several times. She overcomes her social and romantic dilemmas by attempting to manipulate people succeeding in some cases and…...

In her 1816 comedy Emma, Jane Austin presents her audience with a character who may seem difficult, presumptuous, meddling, and abrasive. Throughout the book, the author takes her time to break down the walls this character has put up, gradually bringing her around to a rather lovable young woman. Emma is a wonderful example of many correct ideas being portrayed in an incorrect manner. Though readers may tend to dislike her at first, Emma proves herself to be a character…...

Mothers, sisters, daughters, women alike all suffer unequal, unfair treatment every day worldwide, due to the absolute absence of gender equality in much of the world. In fact, on average, women in the United States are paid seventy-nine cents to every dollar a man makes (Payscale). In UN Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson's 2014 speech, "Gender Equality is your issue too", Watson discusses the hardships that women face globally. Watson's speech ultimately introduces a campaign called, "He for She", trying to…...

Hardy shows a various amount of thoughts, feelings and concerns throughout the 'Veteris Vestigia Frammae' section of his poems. These emotions always differ depending on the memory he is recalling to the place where it took place and even general differences between the way he feels about his late wife, Emma. To start with in the first poem 'The Going', Hardy shows feelings of guilt and blame towards Emma. The first line of the poem, "why did you give no hint…...

'The Going' is a poem mourning the death and loss of Hardy's wife Emma. The themes of anguish, love and regret are echoes throughout the poem however it is unusual and interesting to note that it seems that Hardy is blaming Emma for leaving him and over-romanticizing the time they spent together. The title 'The Going' gives the air that Emma's death was a grand sort of departure. A reader with no knowledge of Hardy's life would perhaps feel that…...

Lionel Trilling’s essay on Emma begins with the starling observation that in the case of Jane Austen, “the opinions which are held of her work are almost as interesting and almost as important to think about, as the work itself” (47). The comment is especially surprising in view of the essay’s origin as an introduction to the Riverside edition of Emma: rather than take readers straight into the novel, Trilling ponders the impossibility of approaching it in simple literary innocence,…...

Amy Heckerling transforms the many values and issues conveyed in Jane Austen’s Emma, set in the 18th century in Highbury to her teen pic film Clueless set in the 20th century, in a high school society. Both texts involve a protagonist, being Emma in Emma and Cher in Clueless who meddle with the relationships of others as their interest, while being “placed in the midst of those who loved her, and who had better sense than herself”. The protagonists are…...

Discuss social class in 'Madame Bovary.' Is Emma a sophisticated aristocrat born by mistake in a bourgeois prison, or is she simply a middle-class girl obsessed with a richer life? Make detailed references to the text in order to support your points. In the novel, 'Madame Bovary,' Gustave Flaubert emphasises the importance of social class: all of the characters have a place in the social hierarchy, with obvious distinctions between lower, middle, and upper classes. The lower classes are represented…...

The first part of the novel In the first part of the novel, Madame Bovary, written by Gustave Flaubert, there are two main characters introduced to us; Emma Rouault and Charles Bovary. These two characters marry and become the "Bovary's". They both have interesting characteristics that lead to being opposing characters. In part one, we come across several descriptions of appearance, personality, education, background, and attitudes; that help us analyze these. The novel starts off with an introduction of what…...