Emma Criticisms of characters

Emma - marriage to Knightley

Once Emma knows herself and others she is ready to accept the responsibility of the bride of George Knightley

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Emma's salvation

Salvation in Emma can only be partial.Emma's pride never disappears... The ego may be deflated temporarily but not permanently

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Emma's faults

Though Emma's faults are comic they constantly threaten to produce serious harm, yet Emma must remain sympathetic or the reader won't wish for or delight in her reform

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Mr. Knightley

Mr. Knightley speaks not only for the author but for Emma's heart

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Mr. Woodhouse

Mr. Woodhouse is an example of a radical detachment from reality...who spins out a world of his own..he is the most gentle and egocentric character in Emma.

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Mr. Woodhouse (continued)

His daughter is in no immediate danger of absorbing his gentleness yet he represents the danger of detachment from reality by way of egotism that she is liable to. He is the only character who continuously has Emma under his control.

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Miss Taylor

Miss Taylor is saved from a state of poverty and dependence that neither Mr. Woodhouse nor his daughter are able to fully appreciate

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Mr. Martin(Harriet proposal)

For her now to accept Martin would mean the sacrifice of a unique friendship, an abandonment of all that Emma prizes in her and is yet to be fulfilled and a betrayal of the social convictions and aspirations that are a true component of her being

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Harriet (story's credibility)

The story's credibility and effectiveness depends on its sustaining the reader's impression that she has qualities that can or will overcome her social defiiciency

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Harriet and Emma's view of her

Emma's appraisal of Harriet has beem unconscioulsy affected by the idea of her own status and capabilities: she has viewed her protegee through the distorting glass of her estimate of herself

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Emma and her view of Harriet's existence

Because she is wealthy Emma has always been free from worry and she assumes a similar and carefree existence for Harriet

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Mrs. Elton

Mrs. Elton is Emma without intelligence or breeding

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Jane's superiority

Jane is superior to Emma in most respect except the stroke of good fortune that made her the heroine of the novel. In matter of taste and ability of head and heart she is Emma's superior

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Jane and Frank

Austen does not convince us that a woman with Jane's mind, integrity, emotional intensity could fall in love with such a dubious light - weight as Frank

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Jane and 19th century women

Jane Fairfax provides Austen with the opportunity to portary the difference of woman's destiny

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Jane and 19th century women

It is Jane's story that exposes the grim reality of life for many women of the 19th century

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Frank and Emma

She is for him what he has been for her a mirror that returns a pleasing image

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Frank

Frank presents the possibility of seeing things another way, one that allows much more to impetuosity and surprise, to passion and risk - taking.

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Frank's view of others

In his view Mr. Woodhouse could be seen as blocking the way, a man whose depressive fussiness inhibits and shuts down opportunities and possibilities of life and Mr. K's masculine rationality and rule - giving an attempt to contain a volatile world

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