Character Analysis Of Emma's House, By George Knightley

Jane Austen begins the novel Emma by stating, “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her” (1) immediately giving readers the impression that Emma is a young woman whom the readers should respect and grow to love throughout the novel. As we continue reading, however, we learn that while Emma has a good reputation and a circle of people who love her and want the best for her, she is extremely flawed. In the article, The Darkness in Emma, Anita Soloway states, “for Emma, beauty, cleverness, and wealth prove to be mixed blessings at best, for they foster the conceit of arrogance that lead her to hurt others and threaten her own happiness” (86) which ties into my argument that Emma’s good reputation is not necessarily based on her character, but instead, the lifestyle she lives, which is a similar concept for Tom in Tom Jones.

Clueless is a 1995 film loosely based on the famous Jane Austen’s 1816 novel Emma. Set in Beverly Hills, Cher who is almost 16 is the most popular girl in school as well as rich and pretty. Her father is a lawyer and her mother died from a liposuction surgery when she was a baby. Cher plays matchmaker throughout the film and begins with two nerdy teachers. This starts by her just trying to boost her grades, but she then sees how much happiness she is bring people so she decides to adopt the new girl, Tai, and give her a makeover. She tries to get Tai and Elton who is the most popular guy in school together but that backfires when Elton tries to make moves with Cher.

* Manipulating reality to suit perception of it * Resulting self-deception, confusion, misunderstanding * Dramatic irony empowering us to see through human flaws and social failings of Emma. This often has unexpected results:-Mr Elton’s proposal “she could have been so deceived...she supposed, and made everything bend to it.”-Frank Churchill is flirty and appears to society to be interested in Emma but in fact secretly making visits to the Bates to visit Jane. Also at Coles dinner party Chapter 26, Frank asks Emma for a

The relationships that he has with the other characters, show us that he is an important character, because of how much they care about

Goodheart compares seriousness to thoughts, and vanity to behavior. In the instance where Emma tries and fails to match Harriet with Mr. Elton, she is deeply touched by Harriet's forgiveness (seriousness), and yet has the delusional idea that she should match her with yet another person. Emma also has the inability to be melancholy. This is one of many sources that criticized and explained Emma’s personal flaws.

     Lady Audley’s Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, is a novel of many elements. It has been placed in many different style or genre categories since its publication. I feel that it best fits under the melodrama or sensational genre, and under the subgenre of mystery. It contains significant elements of both types of writing, so I feel it is best to recognize both, keeping in mind that melodrama is its main device and mystery is a type of Victorian melodrama. In order to understand how the story fits into these categories, it is necessary to explore the Victorian characteristics of each, and apply them to the text. In addition to establishing the

All of this Pip did for his best friend; he took money out of his own pocket and used it to make his friend's life better. The friends cared deeply for each other and loved each other sincerely. Every incident they found themselves in served to deepen their friendship.

I was defiantly surprised by the end of the story. I didn’t realize what was actually happening in the story until the middle of the last paragraph when Tessie Hutchenson said " It isn't fair" and then a stone hit her on the side of her head. Until the last couple paragraph I thought the story was about a normal town and that someone was going to win the lottery.

He represents the way how legends become less fictional the more one learns about it. He also save them from Bob Ewell, and shows the good within every person, no matter what their past is.

Although not a extremely significant antagonist in the plot she still counts because she moves the story along in the most interesting of ways while feeding the readers important information, and being comic relief.

At Box Hill, when Frank Churchill demands on behalf of Emma that everyone should talk, "Mrs. Elton swelled at the idea of Miss Woodhouse's presiding." These two instances show the constant tension between Emma and Mrs. Elton, as each of them try to overpower the other and take control of the group. The occurrences at Box Hill exemplifies Emma's power she feels over the crowd, as she decides that the party is dull and appoints herself to preside over the conversation. Her ego, however, becomes deflated when Mr. Knightley reprimands her for her insult against Miss Bates; this is an important turning point in the novel and guides Emma to eventually realize her feelings toward Mr. Knightley. Mr. Knightley is the only person whom Emma will allow to overpower her and she considers his opinions to be very valuable.

I enjoyed the ingenuity displayed by Emma and her friends. Emma uses her maths skills to stay alive as long as possible. The plans she thinks up made me wish I had paid more attention in math class. Her friends use their strengths and cyber skills in their mission to find Emma. The author goes into detail when explaining how "The Warriors for Emma", as her friends call themselves, use technology to find and piece the clues together. Although, the technology used was nothing advanced or impressive.

In the movie she has the secret betrothal but historically it was broken off when his father did not support it, and it’s highly unlikely that they consummated their relationship. Another similarity was the movies portrayal of Anne Boleyn. Anne had a quick temper and could be very nasty at times. She was careless with what she said and often said things without thinking them through.

Throughout the novel Emma, one observes that Emma spends her time toying with the idea of love and match making. For example, when she attempts to make a match between her friend and a gentleman, each of which from two separate classes, she runs into a large argument with Mr. Knightley. One quickly realizes that Mr. Knightley and Emma have their differences on several subjects and won’t be proven wrong without a fight. When they argue over social class they do not take the subject lightly. Mr. Knightley’s argument with Emma in chapter eight being; Mr. Elton cares too much about money and social class to marry a low life like Harriet, is proven correct.

Emma Bovary allows herself to be destroyed by the people she encounters and her obsession with falling in love. Emma is not happy with herself and her relationship so she looks for other people to fill the void. Emma never really realizes that she is the root of all of the troubles in her life. If she were more in touch with reality, she would realize that she needs to work on herself before blaming her love interests for not being like the men that she has read about in the past. Emma has a very unrealistic perception of love. Emma is unable to fall in love with anyone because she will always be dissatisfied. She destroyed her own marriage before it even started because of her preconceived idea of love. Charles is absolutely in love with Emma and would do anything for her but she does not feel the same way about him due to her fairytale idea of love. It seems as if she is not capable of separating her real life romances from the romance novels that she read when during her time at the convent.