¡Descarga Jane Austen, análisis de Emma y más Apuntes en PDF de Literatura inglesa solo en Docsity! EMMA It is important to bear in mind that that Austen was the daughter of a priest. Something that is important too in her novels is the fact that she was educated at home. Most Austen’s novels have very much to do with what we call “comedy of manners”. This has a lot to do with the role of women in the 19th century, specially in the economical sense, because they were not allowed to heritance and they have nothing to do without marriage. Another way out for women was to become a noun or a governess. Those women who were not married had a very bad consideration in society. Austen was writing in the time of American and French revolution, but some critics say that she was more concerned about the psychological development of characters rather than the world that they lived in, and she seems to be absent of those international changes. Something very important is the possibility of scale in society. (Elizabeth couldn’t marry Mr. Darcy in another time). What makes Elizabeth so interesting is no her fortune or her beauty, but her personality. In pride and prejudice Austen uses some devices of other genres such as the sensational novel. Emma is depicted as a domestic novel. It is related with the values of the middle class. In this case, Emma has a lot of mistakes. She has a lot to learn until she can marry the man she loves. She is the richest person in her village and she is aware of that, what makes her even more arrogant. Some of the things Austen said about Emma is that “she is a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”. Women were presented as clever, beautiful, etc, but Emma is presented as beautiful but stupid, and she must make a huge and unpleasant evolution. This novel is narrated by a third person but is Emma’s perspective. It is a selective omniscient narrator. This produces a kind of sympathy for the character. Austen is pioneer in this kind of narrative technique, for the usual narrator was the omniscient one. In the passage Mrs. Elton is described, we see a clear irony because she sees her in the way we see Emma. The only person who say Emma that she’s wrong is Mr. Knightley. He can represent the father/figure of authority that Emma never had. He represents common sense, judgment, etc. He is also Emma’s equal in terms of class, so he is entitled to correct her. In this way, he can do the role of implied author. The novel is divided into three mayor sections. The introduction shows how Mrs Weston leaves Hearthfield In the second part we see how Emma becomes a kind of an authority figure. The 3rd part is started by the Box Hill. Here, Emma flirts openly with Churchill in front of everybody, and that was so unappropriated in that age. She’s very rude with a character and afterwards she repents because of that, but at the end of the novel we see how it may be too late for her.
