George Knightley

This essay will analyse the relationship between Emma Woodhouse and George Knightley in the text Emma from a feminist perspective. The relationship in general contains two different personalities. Emma is one who believes that she can create the ‘perfect couple’, which gives her the belief of ‘knowing everything’. George Knightley is more of a moral compass for Emma, and he usually displays his approval and disapproval of her actions. Before the relationship is examined; it would be insightful to

and everyone knows Knightley just feels jealous and does not welcome the new rival. This jealousy causes Knightley to behave very uncharacteristicly impulsive; he escapes to London to declare his love to Emma. This loss of control just makes clear that he is just a normal human being with feelings. Frank is the typical smooth bad boy, girls like so much. He epitomizes attractiveness in speech, manner, and appearance. A lot of people don’t trust him, but everyone except Knightley is charmed enough

in fact given in the formation of every sentence” (34). Caught up in her self-appointed role as cupid, Emma ignores the possibility that Harriet and Mr. Martin could ever live happily together. Upon hearing of Harriet’s rejection to Mr. Martin, Knightley suspects Emma’s attempt to produce a match between Harriet and Mr. Elton. He warns Emma about the unlikelihood of Mr. Elton reducing himself to Harriet’s inferior position through marriage. While his warning causes Emma to momentarily doubt herself

Education in Emma: A Game of “Mother May I?” It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is the queen of depicting strong, independent heroines and dashing, empathetic heroes, as well as their witty interactions with one another. However, at their core, Austen’s novels are also about complex mother-daughter relationships. During the 1800s, the education that girls received was mainly geared towards running a household and finding wealthy husbands. As a result, mothers and governesses

able to procure an inheritance that rose her to the same standing of Mr. Rochester. Emma, however does not move about in her social class, rather, she “helps” Jane and Harriet move about their class. Looking at Emma, Emma sees the Woodhouses and Knightleys as coequal, as the town’s distinguished families. The social classes in Emma do not really stick to certain groups; “Though it is clear that families are ranked in terms of the concepts of relative "gentility" and "vulgarity," we cannot specify

The reader's response to Emma is often a mixture of sympathy and impatience. Select two episodes and discuss them in regards to this statement. Continually throughout Emma the reader feels a mixture of sympathy and impatience for its main character Emma Woodhouse. The novel illustrates her vast change in maturity, which occurs in one year. Due to Emma's personality and disposition she will always get herself into difficult circumstances, but it is the way she reacts to the circumstances

companionship amongst Emma and Harriet does minimal useful for both of them, a reality which Mr. Knightley, a neighbor and old companion, promptly takes note. Mr. Knightley reprimands Emma's matchmaking since he sees Robert Martin to be better than Harriet; Emma's sister, Isabella, and her significant other, Mr. John Knightley, visit Highbury, and Emma utilizes their visit as a chance to accommodate with Mr. Knightley after their contention over Harriet. However, despite everything she trusts that Mr. Elton

vanity, some ignorance, or indeed for some meanness” (7)19. Because of her ignorance toward attitudes of her neighbors, Emma interferes through their lives in a way that makes them unhappy, for “she had often been negligent” (Austen 359)20. Mr. Knightley predicts the outcome of Emma’s plans in the beginning of the novel when he states that “[y]ou are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them by interference” (Austen 8)21 and also that “[v]anity working on a weak head produces every

accentuates that qualities and traits are cardinal for the assessment of prospective mentors; and we see the calamity unfolding between Emma and Harriet Smith if these criteria are neglected. Austen concurs, and depicts the ideal mentorship through Mr Knightley and Emma. Chapone, although she recommends an older woman as companion, does not dismiss the potential intimacy between

this book, both the protagonist and the antagonist turn out to be the same person, Emma. Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever, talented, and the youngest of two daughters born to her father. The effect of her sister Isabella’s marriage to Mr. John Knightley a few years earlier had left Emma the mistress of her father’s mansion. Emma, content with running the mansion, keeping the family name good in the eyes of society, and keeping watch over her father,