Emma Essay Examples

Jane Austen

Novel of manners

United Kingdom

1815

Emma is a novel about love and marriage. Throughout the novel one reads about love. Love is the axis on which the plot of the novel turns. We read about the love between Harriet and Robert Martin, Harriet and Elton, Harriet and George Knightley, Emma and Frank and Emma and George Knightley.

Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families.

The Riddle, The Word Game, Tokens of Affection

Emma Woodhouse, Mr. George Knightley, Mr. Woodhouse, Harriet Smith, Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Mrs. Weston, Mr. Weston and other.