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Arrows (and arrowroot) in Jane Austen's Emma. (Miscellany).(Brief Article)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20010101
Author:Hale, John K.

THE WHOLE OF EMMA, indeed the whole of Jane Austen's art in that novel, moves towards that moment of truth experienced by the heroine in which "It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!" (408). The phrasing of this sentence of anagnorisis is beautifully exact, brilliant even by the standards of this author in her greatest novel. First of all, the phrasing of "no one but herself" pinpoints the thought-processes which were more latent earlier but are now sharpened by the danger she suspects of her man's committing himself to ...

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