Refreshing and Entertaining Emma by Jane Austen

 

Emma by Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen is one of the best writers who have delighting climax sequences to entertain the readers.  Austen is a favourite of critics, scholars, and audiences across the globe. Her plots focus on the dependence of women on marriage.  Her novels got adapted into films and series. 

A Short Overview of Emma

The novel starts with an introduction about our heroine, the 21-years old Emma Woodhouse, the owner of a rich home enjoying wealth and health in Highbury. Her father is an old person who is calm and very proud of his daughter and her talents. They had a maiden who served them for years, and her marriage made Mr. Woodhouse uneasy in his life. He complained about her leaving home and imagined a getting-back with her each time. As the novel goes on, many characters are introduced, expanding the plot to new dimensions. 

Ms Emma Woodhouse is a strong and intelligent girl who loves matchmaking. However, sometimes her imagination and expectations about people go wrong creating some mess in her ongoing life. Her values change over time and she realises her weak points. One of the most influencing characters in this novel is, Mr Knightley, who motivates and corrects her each time with lovely words and concepts about life. His maturity and understanding of the people are depicted in very good language. And in the end, Emma also realises she has been searching for a person like Mr Knightley who can inspire her in moments of feeling nothing but sadness. The novel, on one side, is a romantic one with heart-touching romantic moments and inspirational words.

'Emma' is a beautiful presentation of the true in-depth feelings of a woman. A writer looks deep into the emotional structure of the human heart and interprets them with the social-cultural impacts. Though emotions are universal, it gets new layers when these social-cultural attributes get linked to them. Austen carefully observed people portray the true expression of emotions without making it a drama that would never stage in real life. The language is simple to comprehend because it has the shape of people's natural way of talking. The characters are in such a way that nobody thinks they are coming from an adventurous background.

Here the word adventurous simply denotes the different and challenging perspectives each character holds with pride. In a sense, Austen indirectly communicated what the English society meaninglessly meant for a long time. All the characters are presented with dignity and a short narrow-mindedness that is peculiar and interesting. The heroine of 21-years old Emma Woodhouse is spoiled in her wealth and very back in understanding people around her making poor judgments. And finally, she settles down with the guy with whom she had made opposing comments and views.

How Literary World Accepted Emma?

The novel got many positive feedbacks from the contemporary writers, and they recommended this for one another. Thomas Moore, a contemporary of Austen and a very popular Irish poet, wrote to Samuel Rogers, explaining the reasons why it's a good choice for reading. 

"Let me entreat you to read Emma - it is the very perfection of novel-writing – and I cannot praise it more highly than by saying it is often extremely like your own method of describing things – so much effect with so little effort!", he said. 

Although this novel was popular among readers, some critics who managed a profound level of observation stood against this literary creation stating 'this has no meaningful plot'. Maria Edgeworth said; “

there was no story in it, except that Miss Emma found that the man whom she designed for Harriet's lover was an admirer of her own – & he was affronted at being refused by Emma & Harriet wore the willow – and smooth, thin water-gruel is according to Emma's father's opinion a very good thing & it is very difficult to make a cook understand what you mean by smooth, thin water-gruel!!

The noticed comment of the novel was from a Scottish novelist, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, she loved the novel and expressed the true feeling of a reader. 

"I have been reading Emma, which is excellent; there is no story whatever, and the heroine is not better than other people; but the characters are all true to life and the style so piquant, that it does not require the adventitious aids of mystery and adventure."

people are of different perspectives and values. Austen could satisfy her readers with a plot that expressed the real-life and thoughts of English people of that time. This book has become the favourite of those readers who hug classical time and its presence. It is a fact that your reading landscape grows with Emma by Jane Austen.

The book goes straight into the heart of every reader, that's the magic of it.