Emma theme criticisms

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Society- interest
Emma assumed that her own wealth and position give her the right to dictate to her inferior whose true interests she must understand better than they do themselves
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Society- stereotypes
Emma is less interested in observing her inferior accurately than she is in fitting their behavior into preexisting stereotypes
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Society- Emma ignores money
Emma repeatedly finds that she has erred because she has failed to consider the limitations of another person's pocketbook
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Money in Emma
Of all of Austen's writing , Emma is more consciously aware of how money is won and lost, of the efforts people make to procure it and the sacrifices they must endure when they are unable to obtain it
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Role of women in society
Austen depicts a society that for all its seeming privileges closely monitors behavior, Her heroines in particular discover in the course of the novel that individual happiness cannot exist separately from our responsibilities to others
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Emma's marrige
Emma in the end chose society rather than self, an inherited order rather than a spontaneous and improvised existence
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Narration
The novel bent narration through the distorting lens of the protagonists mind
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Austen's use of irony
The larger irony that informs all of Jane Austen's comic art is a sense of human limitations
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Austen's moral world
Austen depicts even the best minds as continually fallible under the pressure of new evidence and potentially undermined from within by selfishness, Her only constants are abstract qualities,the characteristics striven for by those caring for truth
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Misunderstanding
Emma often assumes an innuendo, a secret message that isn't there and while she is assuming a non - existent one she is likely to miss the one that is there
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Emma is less interested in observing her inferior accurately than she is in fitting their behavior into preexisting stereotypes

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Emma repeatedly finds that she has erred because she has failed to consider the limitations of another person's pocketbook

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Of all of Austen's writing , Emma is more consciously aware of how money is won and lost, of the efforts people make to procure it and the sacrifices they must endure when they are unable to obtain it

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Austen depicts a society that for all its seeming privileges closely monitors behavior, Her heroines in particular discover in the course of the novel that individual happiness cannot exist separately from our responsibilities to others

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