Emma

In the novels of Jane Austen, there has been a common stigma of the absent parent and the child that is left to develop their own moral character. Primarily in the eighteenth and nineteen century, the family dynamic focused mainly on social class and how they were viewed by the public. This, ultimately, effected the children of the family as they lacked parental guidance and emotional support. In her novels, Jane Austen highlighted this fault by commonly producing heroines that…...

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,…...