Emma: Jane Austen's Errant Heroine

Goodheart, Eugene

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“…Looking at the passage in retrospect, Emma is as blind to her true feelings as Harriet is at this time. Such blindness is key to enabling the storyline's progress since Emma's unsuccessful matchmaking can be perceived as failed experiment that helps the characters navigate the realm of relationships by ruling out the wrong choices [6].…”

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The Presentation and Influence of Power Dynamics in Jane Austens Emma

Wang

2024

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Nowadays, literary criticism tries to evaluate the literary work by fitting it into a certain established theory. Instead, this essay focuses on the original dialogues in Jane Austens novel Emma to give a pragmatic testimonial of how revolutionary Jane Austen is in showing the shifting power dynamics between Emma and her friend Harriet Smith through seemingly easy-spoken exchange. By paying attention to three specific passages in the novel, this essay analyses the authors use of words, tone and punctuation in conversations between the pair of friends. The analysis enables the assessment of their characteristics at different stages of the novel and their consequent change in positions in terms of power dynamics. From Harriets initial unsteadiness and Emmas dominance to obtaining relevant balance, this essay reveals Austens construction of power dynamics between characters as variables that maintain conservation. The consequential function of such design is that the establishment of power dynamics helps to distribute authority and exert influences on the characters behaviour, thereby presenting the plot development and solid personal growth of characters.

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The Presentation and Influence of Power Dynamics in Jane Austens Emma

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2024

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“…Besides, it is Mr. Knightley's harsh rebuke that makes her feel guilty. Goodheart (2008) doubts that Emma would stick to the corrections imposed by Mr. Knightly stating that:…”

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“…There has not been any indication that love overweighs reason. So, their marriage is basically based on mutual respect and friendship (Goodheart, 2008).…”

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Psychosocial Development Portrayed in Jane Austen’s Emma

Hassan

Azmi

2019

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This paper investigates the bildungsroman phenomenon as depicted in Jane Austen’s Emma (1817) by consulting Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development as a framework of analysis. The most two conflicting readings in this regard could be best seen in Buckley’s (1974) claim which excluded Emma from the bildungsroman, for the genre has always been associated with the protagonist’s physical quest seeking maturity and social integration. However, Kohn (1995) read Emma as a domestic bildungsroman when he argued that Emma did not have to travel physical distances to achieve her maturity. For Kohn, Emma matured within her social sphere. This paper particularly traced Emma’s psychological and social development since this type of development is the basic ingredient of any bildungsroman novel. This paper argued that Emma cannot be read as bildungsroman not because the protagonist did set on a quest, as Buckley claimed, but mainly because Emma did not develop a sense of psychological or social maturation. After placing Emma in Erikson’s developmental stages, the study revealed that she did not really mature neither she realized her own identity. This paper proposed that Emma should not be classified as bildungsroman because the heroine distorted the real meaning of maturity and social integrity.

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Chapter 7. “Worth a moment’s notice”

González-Díaz¹

2016

Linguistics and Literary History

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Emma: Jane Austen's Errant Heroine

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The Presentation and Influence of Power Dynamics in Jane Austens Emma

The Presentation and Influence of Power Dynamics in Jane Austens Emma

Psychosocial Development Portrayed in Jane Austen’s Emma

Chapter 7. “Worth a moment’s notice”

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