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booksbuddy
08-02-2007, 07:13 AM
Can you explain Emma's characters in five words or more but less than ten.I need to draw her character sketch with the help of these points.Also if you can provide quotes from novel proving your point.Thax!
Sir Bartholomew
08-12-2007, 08:39 PM
i think i'd copy the blurb of my paperback: selfish, cruel, snob, spoilt and fun
booksbuddy
08-14-2007, 02:58 AM
i think i'd copy the blurb of my paperback: selfish, cruel, snob, spoilt and fun


I really don't think she is spoilt or cruel but sometimes it seems so.
Do you have any Quotes to support your points?
Sir Bartholomew
08-14-2007, 08:11 PM
that one was from this review in Sunday Times I forgot the writer's name, it's posted at the back of my Penguin paperback. actually I was wrong, it was "snob, vain, selfish, cruel and fun" which all are true.
Jane'sRedRose
11-19-2008, 04:30 PM
I find Emma Woodhouse to be a misunderstood heroine, but in the fashion that she misunderstood herself. She does not evolve from the somewhat spoiled girl she is to the refined woman of status she ends up as without Mr. Knightley's constant criticism. Now, I find that he does become a bit harsh, at times, but he also seems to want to help her find out who she really is and how she can use her superior birth to help those less fortunate. Her wrongs had never been pointed out to her by anyone else, besides Mrs. Weston, but when she got married, Emma needed a new teacher. I find that Mr. Knightley's "lessons" strengthened the bond between them and brought them together in the end. They seem to know each other better and realize how perfect they are for one another.
art_ish
08-03-2010, 06:02 AM
It is an interesting claim to point out that 'Emma misunderstands herself'. In what way?
But I certainly agree that Emma is a misunderstood heroine. Self indulgence and conceit is not there all is to the witty girl. She is smart, talented, in the bloom of health but 'chiefly directed by opinions of her own' and has the tendency of having 'too high an opinion of herself'. The first page is an apt representation of her character and I still marvel at the way Austen begins this masterpiece.