i'm studying "emma" for my HSC and my teacher tells me that austen is satirical of the world around her, but what i dont understand is why i have to read 55 chapters of 500 pages just to learn tha tmy insomnia was cured because jane austen's point was that these people have boring lives<br><br>i figured out that these people were boring at the start, and that the book is, by why write a boring book to prove the place is boring???