EMMA
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Emma cuenta la historia de la señorita Woodhouse, una joven empeñada en hacer de Celestina de sus amistades y relaciones. Pero en el proceso se olvida de atender sus propios sentimientos. Cuando su institutriz, amiga y confidente, la señorita Taylor, choose contraer matrimonio, Emma se queda sola ante sus propios sentimientos.
Emma se enfrenta a un vacío en su vida… y con un gran dilema: cómo ayudar a los demás a llevar una vida tan perfecta como la suya. Convertida en casamentera, busca candidatos para Harriet, una joven sencilla y modesta, alejada del estilo de vida de la alta sociedad inglesa. Sólo el hermano de su cuñado, Mr. Knightley, diecisiete años mayor que ella y hombre de temple y aplomo probados, se atreve a recriminar los errores de Emma, y será éste quien ponga fin a la confusión que ella misma ha provocado. Emma se empeña en manipular a todos los que la rodean, pero, naturalmente, no para de equivocarse y de ocasionar enredos y situaciones embarazosas.
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Of all Jane Austen’s heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice’s Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility’s Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense–but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only concluded six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for building a excellent marriage depend momentously on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and pleased disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of being; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very small to distress or vex her.” One may be tempted to marvel what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, reasonably a lot.
For Emma, raised to reflect well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The tale revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to re-establish her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a spouse–and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family tree friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but gorgeous Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly on the breadline elderly ladies in the village. As Emma’s fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse’s longtime friend and national. Though Austen herself described Emma as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” she brilliant her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. –Alix Wilber
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Having been forced to read “Emma” for an English Literature course, I feel that I know as much about it as anyone else, if not more so. “Emma” is nothing more than a trashy romance, like the rest of Jane Austen’s novels. We all know more or less what is going to take place at the end of the book – of course the hero and heroine are going to fall in like. Austen’s use of irony is not exemplary either – is there anyone who didn’t realise that Frank Churchill was hiding something, if we weren’t sure reasonably what? Anyone who describes an Austen novel as a “classic”, particualy this one, needs their head examined. She is an olden days Jackie Collins, whose fancy language seems to have deluded some into believing that she is something which she certianly is not.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Best I can figure this Jane Auston woman
stoll the plot of Clueless and rote a book.
Too many coincidences to make me judge
anything else. Why Alecia Sivlerstone
doesn’t sue Jane Austin is beyond me!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
There is one principle reason that Emma is remembered. It was written by a woman. If Jane Austen had been a man, her works would be regarded as banal and inconsequential works of small literary merit. The work is impressive considering that Austen came from a culture that repressed women (a characteristic that most female authors share), but beyond that it is a poor work.
There is a profusion of works of greater literary merit by women than what Austen offers, Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein”, Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”, Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”, “Nectar in a Seive” by Kamala Markandaya, or a very fine piece “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. All of these works have better characteristics than “Emma”, and prove to be superior to all of Austen’s writings.
Trust me, “Emma” is a waste.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
While cultural pundits try to convince you that some literature is better than additional literature, the truth is that all art is relative to individial tastes. Thus, it doesn’t make any sense to reflect that a novel like this one is really any better than say, Michael Crichton or Stephen King. Aesthetic standards can’t be grounded.
Thus, don’t listen to anyone who tries to distinguish between “serious” works of literature like this one and allegedly “lesser” novels. The honor is entirely illusory, because no novels are “better” than any others, and the concept of a “fantastic novel” is an intellectual hoax.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Seriously, this book is just convoluted and dull. I can’t judge this is called a classic. Its terrible and the educators at certain high schools should not force this book upon kids–it lowers their grades and intelligence.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5