ESSAY

English Literature

Analysis of Jane Austen’s Novel “EMMA”

Lecturer : Sri Agusrawati, S.S.,M.A.

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 From the provided novel, we will describe about the author, setting, plot,

themes, characters, style, language and moral of story. In a novel called EMMA,

by Jane Austen in the Era of Romanticism. This novel was first published in

December 1815. This novel is one of the most popular novels from the past until

now. This novel is an adaptation of the name of the main protagonist or character

in the novel named Emma.

A. Author

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose books, set among the

English middle and upper classes, are notable for their wit, social observation

and insights into the lives of early 19th century women. She was born on 16

December 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire. She was one of

eight children of a clergyman and grew up in a close-knit family. She began to

write as a teenager. In 1801 the family moved to Bath. After the death of

Jane's father in 1805 Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother moved

several times eventually settling in Chawton, near Steventon.

Jane's brother Henry helped her negotiate with a publisher and her first

novel, 'Sense and Sensibility', appeared in 1811. Her next novel 'Pride and

Prejudice', which she described as her "own darling child" received highly

favourable reviews. 'Mansfield Park' was published in 1814, then 'Emma' in

1816. 'Emma' was dedicated to the prince regent, an admirer of her work. All

of Jane Austen's novels were published anonymously. In 1816, Jane began to

suffer from ill-health, probably due to Addison's disease. She travelled to

Winchester to receive treatment, and died there on 18 July 1817. Two more
novels, 'Persuasion' and 'Northanger Abbey' were published posthumously and

a final novel was left incomplete. In this novel Jane Austen wrote a novel with

the title "EMMA" and This edition was created and published by Global Gray.

B. Setting

The setting of this novel is precisely in Highbury, England in the early

19th century which included several provincial communities, especially in the

aristocratic region. Precisely revolving around Emma's big house and then

Emma's best friend's farmhouse, and the school is run by several elderly

women who fall into poverty. As Harriet meets the gypsies on the road,

Richmond is saved by Frank, right next to the river's edge. And a simple-

looking living room with a view on Box hill with a path like the path where

George proposed to Emma. The characters in this novel portray diverse and

humane personalities related to social and human relationships. As a typical

noble classy and has received such a high education, with a good social status.

And there is also something like the characteristics of someone who is of low

social class with minimal education and a surgical background. As in the

portrayal of a character named Emma, she is struggling hard to get rid of her

arrogance to deal with her fear of her feelings, causing people around her to

misunderstand. Just as in the feelings of Emma's love for others namely, Mr.

Elton and Harriet, he was very ambiguous towards both. And finally he

realized that he fell in love with Lord Knightley, after Harriet revealed the

same thing to Emma. From this story, it is clear that the difference in social

class will influence social relations, friendship, and even marriage, so at that
time relations between women and men were filled with politeness with a

great influence on people's views.

C. Plot

Emma was sure that Harriet would be devastated by Frank's

engagement, but Harriet assured him that it had not happened. In fact, Harriet

told Emma, that Mr. Knightley was the one he liked and he was sure that Mr.

Nightley returned his feelings. Emma was shocked, what she first thought was

that the match didn't match, but when she felt anxious and jealous, she

realized in a moment that she herself had fallen in love with Mr. Knightley.

He suffered when he thought that it might be too late and decided to support

his beloved friend whatever they did, even though it hurt him. But when Mr.

Knightley hurried back to Highbury to console Emma, who he imagined had

lost Frank Churchill. Emma also realized that Mr. Knightley is also in love

with him. Mr. Knightley proposed to her and he gladly accepted it. There is

one more matchmaking that happened: with enthusiasm from Mr. Knightley,

the farmer Robert Martin re-applied Harriet, and this time he accepted it. Jane

and Emma make peace and all misunderstandings are cleared before Jane and

Frank leave for their marriage and live with their uncle in Yorkshire. Emma

and Mr. Knightley decided that after marriage, they would stay with Emma's

father at Hartfield to avoid Mr. A lonely and troubled woodhouse. They seem

to be heading for a union of "perfect happiness," with great joy from their

friends. Mrs. Weston gave birth to a baby girl, to the satisfaction of Emma

who seemed to want to introduce the little Miss Weston to her little niece.
D. Themes

It is a classic novel tells about emma woodhouse life who an almost

perfect girl (beautiful, smart, and rich) But the most interesting thing about

her figure is about her confidence in guessing the contents of other people's

hearts (and also interfering in other people's love affairs). The story begins

with Emma have friend her name is Harriet Smith, a girl who is not so classy,

but very beautiful. There was a young man who liked Harriet his name is Mr.

Martin, but Emma did not approve of it because when Emma looked at Mr

Martin she thought he is not good enough for Harriet. Emma also matched

Harriet with Mr. Elton. Mr. Elton often visited Hartfield, Emma's house,

where Harriet also lived. Emma thought Mr. Elton was doing that because he

was interested with Harriet.

unexpectedly, it turns out that Mr. Elton likes Emma. Hated that Emma

knew that, she became uneasy because Harriet had fallen in love with Mr.

Elton. After accepting Emma's refusal, Mr Elton went to London and married

with a rich girl. A son of neighbor Emma, Frank Churchill came on vacation

to Emma's village. At first Emma was attracted to him. But gradually Emma

concluded that she was not in love with Frank. Besides Harriet and Frank

looked close. But Emma had to listen the news about Frank engagement with

Emma's neighbor, Jane Fairfax, who was very beautiful and more talented

than Emma in pllaying the piano. Emma kept this news from Harriet, because

she was worried to breaking Harriet's heart again for the second time. But

apparently she was already knew it by other people and emma was surprised.
So Emma began to lose her confidence in guessing the feelings of others.

Harriet was never interested in Frank. Harriet was interested withMr.

Knightley, brother of Emma's sister-in-law. Ema was so surprised because she

realized one thing, that she had loved with Mr Knightley for a long time Even

though she knew if Harriet was her best friend, but it was very difficult for her

to give up on her feelings.

E. Characters

1. Emma Woodhouse, the protagonist of the story, a beautiful girl,

high-spirited, smart, and somewhat spoiled in her twenties.

2. George Knightley, about thirty-seven years old, was a close friend

of Emma, and the only one who dared to criticize him, even though

he cared deeply about her.

3. Mr. Frank Churchill, son of Mr. Weston from his previous

marriage, was a friendly young man, arranged to be liked by

everyone except Mr. Knightley, who considers him quite mature.

4. Jane Fairfax, an orphan who only has an aunt, Miss Bates, and a

grandmother, Miss Bates's mother, is considered to be a very

beautiful, smart and elegant woman, with good manners, and also

very educated and very talented at singing and playing the piano.

5. Harriet Smith, Emma's younger friend, was very beautiful but

simple and too easily influenced by others, especially Emma.

6. Philip Elton is a handsome, young priest who seems kind and

polite and ambitious.

 7. Augusta Elton, formerly Miss Hawkins, who was the wife of Mr.

Elton. He is rich and cannot have offspring and has good manners

for the rich.

8. Mrs. Anne Weston, formerly Miss Taylor, was Emma's nanny for

sixteen years and remained her closest and trusted friend after she

married Mr Weston in the earlier chapter.

9. Mr. Weston, a newly wealthy man who lives around Hartfield,

married Emma's former caretaker, Miss Taylor, and by his first

marriage was Frank Churchill's father, who was adopted and raised

by his late wife's brother and sister-in-law.

10. Miss Bates is an old, friendly, talkative spinster whose mother,

Mrs. Bates, is Mr Woodhouse's friend.

11. Mr. Henry Woodhouse, Emma's father, who always concentrated

on his health and comfort, and as long as it does not interfere, the

health and comfort of his friends.

12. Isabella Knightley (née Woodhouse) Emma's eldest brother and

Henry's son.

13. John Knightley Isabella's husband and George's younger brother.

He is an old acquaintance of Jane Fairfax.

F. Style

The point of view in this novel is more complex than the use of an

omniscient narrator might suggest because for most of Emma, the narrator

presents events and characters from Emma's perspective; in other words,

 generally she is presenting Emma's thoughts, feelings, and judgments.

Thus the reader must distinguish between Emma's values and judgments

and the narrator's. Sometimes the reader must infer the narrator's view

from the use of language--perhaps an ironic word or phrase appears in the

flow of Emma's thoughts to distance the narrator from Emma and thereby

imply the narrator's views. Or the narrative unobtrusively shifts from

Emma's perspective to the narrator's for a sentence or two or in the choice

of a phrase or even one word.

G. Language

So, the use of language in emma’s novel is to use English. Emma’s

novel is one of thebest novels in English and also Jane Austen’s most

challenging and interesting book. But , the use of the languange is the

more difficult standard languange. If people who read Emma’s novel are

not ready to read more challenging, Emma’s might not be the right book

for people who want to read it. And there are still some other technical

errors, some people who read them always flinch. One of thems is the

Italic print consistency for the entire dialogue language where sometimes

there is also a dialogue that is not made italic. Then there are also some

ambigious sentences which sometimes people hang reading the Emma

novel cannot interpret what they mean.

H. Moral of story

After reading the novel about Emma THERE is a persistent

probing of surface appearances and values in the new novel Emma by Jane

Austen. Emma is Miss Woodhouse, a convincing picture of wide-eyed

naïvety. An opening credit quotes her as “handsome, clever, and rich”. She

is completely oblivious of how much she still has to learn about the human

heart, not to mention the soul. Why I say like that because having

successfully married off her governess to a widower, she turns her

attention to matchmaking for friends and family, whether they like it or

not. Emma tries palming off her friend Harriet with the parson, Philip

Elton. So the moral value of this novel is we as women should not be too

selfish and force the will, not only because of men then we drop our self-

esteem precisely by forcing the will without us knowing it slowly. You

will never know that what you do is liked by many people or just the

opposite. and also in my opinion in a marriage that there should be no

coercion because marriage is a sacred thing in someone's life and if

someone marries by arranged marriage and they do not like each other

then rest assured that marriage will not last long, instead it will cause

destruction in someone's household. and also the moral value that can be

taken in this novel is, we as humans do not like to interfere in other

people's private matters. because just imagine if your personal business

interferes with other people I'm sure you will not like it either. so let us

take care of our own lives while we still can. and if you really are not able
to take care of yourself then you can ask for help from others and also we

can interfere in other people's business if that person has asked for help

from us.