EMMA

EMMA

1. SOCIETY

   • Snobbery
     • Miss Churchill marrying Mr Weston to the "infinite mortification" of parents as it was an "unsuitable connection"
     • a young farmer... is the very last sort of person to raise my curiosity"
     • "I could not have visited Mrs Robert Martin"
   • "Mr Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury"

2. MISINTERPRETATION

   • "Mr Elton was in continual raptures, and defended it through every criticism" (the painting)
   • "Not Harriet's equal!"/ "he is as much her superior..."
   • "better be without sense than misapply it as you do"

3. GENDER

4. EMMA HERSELF

   • RELATIONSHIP WITH KNIGHTLEY
     • "you made a lucky guess"
     • "Mr Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them"
     • "I think her the very worst sort of companion that Emma could possibly have"
     • "if Elton is the man, I think it will be all labour in vain"
   • "handsome, rich and clever"
   • "rather too much her own way"/ "think a little too well of herself"
     • "I made the match myself"
   • "Mr Elton was the very person fixed on by Emma for driving the young farmer out of Harriet's head"
   • overpowering with Harriet- forces her to reject Robert Martin

5. IRONY

   • Mr Woodhouse about Emma: "she will make no lasting blunder"/ "she will never lead anyone really wrong"
   • "the letter had much better be all your own" (to Robert Martin)

6. FEE IN