CHAPTER 4 - EMMA

CHAPTER 4 - EMMA

1. SUMMARY

   • Emma and Harriet spend more time together. She asks H a lot of questions and disputes Mr Martin and encourages Mr Elton instead

2. ELEMENTS OF COMEDY

   • Emma is 'self educated' - in being a love expert (she has never been in love and has no intention to marry) IRONY
     • "fancying it"
     • "There can be no doubt of your being a gentleman's daughter"
     • "no alarming symptoms of love"
   • "gentility" - comedy of manners
   • "compare their manner of carrying themselves" - comedy of manners
   • SNOB: "feared it was what every body else must think of" FOLLY

3. KEY QUOTES

   • "walking companion" - Haiiret's role to Emma
   • "she could summon at ay time to a walk" - H is E's object
   • "For Mrs Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet everything"
   • "very last sort of person to raise my curiosity"
   • "good specimens of well educated, well-bred men" & "inferior creature" - contrast
   • ".. and his being illiterate and course need not disturb us"
     • "two parlours" Mr M is wealthyish
   • "warm personal praise ... drawn from Mr Elton" - matchmaking
   • "just a fortnight and a day's difference" - H likes MM

4. CONTEXT

   • Social stratification - division of the social classes