6 responses to “Emma Woodhouse is a Lovable Heroine (to me, at least)”
Jan Marie
THIS!!!!
Despite her financial security, Emma is essentially a prisoner in that house.
Yes, her father ‘loves’ her, but she has NO freedom (unlike Darcy, who travels around the country while leaving his teen sister with paid employees to look after her – or not).
I think the 2020 movie did a good job of showing how claustrophobic her world is.
I loved the scene where Knightly is all puffed up (as usual) and pontificating Frank Churchill’s failure to the duties owed his father while she tries to shush him because Mr. Woodhouse is asleep and she doesn’t want him waking up and getting upset.
Then she points out that Knightly is financially self-sufficient and doesn’t know what it’s like to be dependent on another person’s whims. (Like her?)
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bdelleman
Yes! I loved that scene.
What really gets me is the babysitting, like how Emma has the Bates sit with her father so she can go to a ball. But then when they tell her how the night went, her father was a terrible host without her. She has to do so much every day to make him content in spite of himself.
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Jan Marie
“She has to do so much every day to make him content in spite of himself.”
Been there, done that, didn’t get a T-shirt.
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cindie snyder
Good post! I have not seen the newest Emma yet but I agree Emma was a prisoner who always seemed to have to please her father. I saw the BBC version on PBS and it was good.
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Alice McVeigh
I agree with Bethany in almost every respect. She has an intuitive understanding of Austen than I admire.
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Allan B
Oh Emma is by far my favourite JA character.
Of course she has her flaws, but these add real depth to her personality and are the core of the storyline.
For a Regency heroine she has wonderful wit and is considerably more acerbic and indeed acidic in her language (notably to the appalling Mrs Elton) than would be expected of ‘ladies’ of that era.
Emma was of course a young woman of position, her status was a determining and rather limiting factor in what she was able to do.
I haven’t seen the 2020 version of Emma, but it would seem a mistake to me to include an apology to Robert Martin directly from Emma – despite the fact that he may have deserved one.
6 responses to “Emma Woodhouse is a Lovable Heroine (to me, at least)”
THIS!!!!
Despite her financial security, Emma is essentially a prisoner in that house.
Yes, her father ‘loves’ her, but she has NO freedom (unlike Darcy, who travels around the country while leaving his teen sister with paid employees to look after her – or not).
I think the 2020 movie did a good job of showing how claustrophobic her world is.
I loved the scene where Knightly is all puffed up (as usual) and pontificating Frank Churchill’s failure to the duties owed his father while she tries to shush him because Mr. Woodhouse is asleep and she doesn’t want him waking up and getting upset.
Then she points out that Knightly is financially self-sufficient and doesn’t know what it’s like to be dependent on another person’s whims. (Like her?)
Yes! I loved that scene.
What really gets me is the babysitting, like how Emma has the Bates sit with her father so she can go to a ball. But then when they tell her how the night went, her father was a terrible host without her. She has to do so much every day to make him content in spite of himself.
“She has to do so much every day to make him content in spite of himself.”
Been there, done that, didn’t get a T-shirt.
Good post! I have not seen the newest Emma yet but I agree Emma was a prisoner who always seemed to have to please her father. I saw the BBC version on PBS and it was good.
I agree with Bethany in almost every respect. She has an intuitive understanding of Austen than I admire.
Oh Emma is by far my favourite JA character.
Of course she has her flaws, but these add real depth to her personality and are the core of the storyline.
For a Regency heroine she has wonderful wit and is considerably more acerbic and indeed acidic in her language (notably to the appalling Mrs Elton) than would be expected of ‘ladies’ of that era.
Emma was of course a young woman of position, her status was a determining and rather limiting factor in what she was able to do.
I haven’t seen the 2020 version of Emma, but it would seem a mistake to me to include an apology to Robert Martin directly from Emma – despite the fact that he may have deserved one.