Emma Thompson

single woman with regards to improving her socioeconomic status other than through marriage. Jane Austen’s Emma and Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, novels written in 19th century England, both provide a lens through which the challenges of young women of the time can be observed and analyzed. Emma portrays a tenacious heroine, who is strong, intelligent and confident

In the words of Mary Lamberton Becker, the editor of Pride and Prejudice,“All of Jane Austen’s heroines are better than perfect: they are deliciously human” (Austen 5). In Pride and Prejudice, each one of Austen’s characters has their own flaws. By giving her characters flaws, Austen is able to show that pride and prejudice may cause misjudgements. Using excellent characterization, Austen creates characters that could walk out of the pages of her book and enter real life. As a result, Austen’s characterization

classic novel Emma (1816) with both texts comparable as they use satire to address similar values. The shift in context enables the texts to reinforce the values of Regency England or 1990s Beverly Hills. Heckerling subverts and appropriates the original text to a cinematic context, through this she can comment on American society thus invoking new meaning to the ideas in Emma. Both

Wenner explores the geographical ramifications of Highbury from a broader scope by appointing Emma Woodhouse as the central figure of the allegorical nation-state Highbury is meant to represent. She argues, despite Jane Austen’s seeming ignorance of the real-world events happening at the time the novel is set, that there exists an implicit acknowledgement of Austen’s political awareness in a time of English triumph and “nationalistic pride” (Wenner 56). The ethnocentric ideals of the characters are

to develop the plot by giving them strategically placed decisions. In Austen's novel Emma, there is a case where Emma, as a non-strategic character, becomes someone who can be amenable to game theory. Emma is a clueless character and therefore she is unaware of her own preferences, as stated earlier, however, Mr. Knightley [a suitor] is very careful about his interactions with people and how he acts around Emma. The scene that is amenable for game theory is the situation of Harriet trying to figure

It is well known that young men and women are not the best judges of friends; this holds especially true when they have little experience with friendship, and few chances to truly understand people and how they act. When Jane Austen began editing her first novel, Northanger Abbey, in 1803, at the age of 28, she had gone through the same troubling period during adolescence, but once she was older, she had found her own set group of friends, and was especially close to Anne Lefroy and her sister Cassandra

Throughout the course of Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, Austen creates numerous couples and presents them to the readers. With Jane Austen as the supernatural mastermind, Lydia and Mr. Wickham, act as counter agents to the main characters, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, and help to highlight the positive qualities that Austen crafts with throughout the novel. Jane Austen composes the main protagonist, Elizabeth, as a mature and haste thinker with the purpose of juxtaposing Lydia's brashness

Written and published in 1813, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is still read and thoroughly enjoyed all across the globe today, two-hundred-three years after its initial release. It's excellent ability to retain the interest of readers throughout history was obtained through Austen’s capability to bring forth themes in the story such as love, class, and reputation; themes that are relevant to any person at any point in time. Similar to this literary relic, the drama “A Raisin in the Sun” by

Emma gains her provincial ideals early on in her life. When she receives news at the convent that her mother has died, she weeps for several days as a show of how sad she is (or should be). When her father comes to see if she is okay, she is “...inwardly pleased to feel that she had so quickly attained that rare ideal of a pale, languid existence, beyond the reach of mediocre spirits...she was finally surprised to discover that she felt quite tranquil again and that she had no more sadness in her

Emma seems to regard the visit as a necessary annoyance; despite outward actions, she is, inside of herself, feeling annoyed and irritated at having to visit Mrs. Bates. She "determined" to talk to the Bates, but does not appear to want to. She also seems to avoid the house as much as possible, given that "the few" who saw faults in her knew she did not visit as much as she should. Her attitude towards the Bates is one of ascendency and polite dismissal. She appears to regard them almost as fools