Emma Jane Austen English

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

Emma

Jane Austen

English Bookreport

Melanie Dogan

Men. Scheffer

4H2

Title:

Emma

Author:

Jane Austen

Published in:

1816

Pages:

471

Places:

The story takes place in England, in and around Hartfield and Highbury and sometimes in other places (for example London).

Time:

The story takes time in the 18th/19th century.

Characters:

Emma Woodhouse

She's the main character of the book. She's 20 years old. She's got a sister Isabella. Emma lives with her father at Hartfield. Her mother died when she was still a little girl. Emma is beautiful and intelligent. She is also very rich, she belongs to "the upper class". She's also a bit arrogant. She believes that people who aren't as rich as she is are "lower" than her. She thinks she can do whatever she wants with other people, and get away with it. She thinks that when you are from "the upper class" you are better than when u were from a "lower class".

Mr. Woodhouse

He's Emma's dad. He has a bad health. He leaves the management of his company completely to his youngest daughter(Emma).

Mr. Knightely

He's 38 years old. He's a close friend of Emma. His brother is married with Emma's sister. He is the only one who tells Emma what she has or is doing wrong.

Mr. Elton

He's a young man. Emma thinks that he is in love with Harriet, but as turns out, he's actually in love with Emma. Later he'll marry a woman who's really full of herself.

Harriet Smith

She's 17 years old. And she's Emma's best friend. She has an unknown father. She was placed on the Mrs. Goddard's school. She's quite attractive. She does everything Emma says she has to do. And she's very forgiving. That's because she's a bit of an airhead(in my opinion).

Miss Bates

She's an older friend of the Woodhouses. She still lives with her mother. She's a bit silly. And Emma thinks she's a stupid "stupid tattler". Emma is really cruel to her( at least that's what i think) in the way she talks about her, etc..

Frank Churchill

This is the son of Mr. Weston. A lot of women think he's very attractive. Emma thinks that he is in love with her. At the end of the story he marries Jane Fairfax.

Mr. Weston

He's very nice. He has married Miss Taylor( Emma's governess).

Jane Fairfax

A very pretty and intelligent young woman. She's a cousin of Miss Bates. Emma likes to gossip about Jane.

Summary

Emma Woodhouse is a rich and clever girl. She lives with her father at Hartfield in a little town called Highbury. Her governess Miss Taylor has just left the house to get married. Both Emma and her father feel that as a great lost. Mr. Knightely the brother of her sister's husband comes to visit them that evening. Emma tells about how much they miss Mrs Taylor.

Emma believes that she has matched Miss Taylor and Miss Weston. Mr. Knightly tells her what he thinks of what she's done.

Her father tells her not to make any matches again.

Emma wants to become friends with someone, now that Miss Taylor has left her and she hasn't got anyone to talk to. Finally, she becomes friends with Harriet Smith. Harriet wants to b friends with her because she adores her.

Emma wants to match her with the vicar Mr Elton. She invites them both at Hartfield. Harriet falls in love with Elton and Emma thinks that he feels the same. Robert Martin, a farmer has asked Harriet to marry him but Emma tells her not to do that because he is "just" a farmer. Mr. Knightley is very mad with Emma when he hears that Harriet has done what Emma told her to do. He thinks that Harriet doesn't deserve Mr. Martin.

After dinner, one night, Emma's sitting in the same carriage as Mr. Elton. When he suddenly tells her that he's in love with her! Emma doesn't want this and tells him that she thought that he was in love with Harriet. Later Emma tells Harriet what had happened the other night. Harriet is very sad because of that, but she ain't mad or something like that. Emma decides that she'll have to match Harriet with someone else to make her(Harriet) happy.

Mr. Elton leaves for Bath and when he returns home he's already married with someone.

Later everybody's talking about Frank Churchill. He'll soon visit his father and his new wife. Jane Fairfax is also coming, but she's staying with Mrs. Bates.

Emma wants to match Frank with Harriet.

But later she's afraid she's afraid she's falling for Frank. And so does he( she thinks!). Mr. Knightely doesn't like him very much.

Later she organises a dance for Frank. Mr. Knightely doesn't like to dance, but still he dances with Harriet(and with Emma). At the ball, Mr. Elton behaves very rude towards Harriet. After the ball Mr. Elton wants to organise a picnic but because of the weather it has to be cancelled.

They decide to go to Mr. Knightley's garden.

The day after they go on a picnic, everybody's very quiet and Emma behaves rudely to Mrs. Bates. Mr. Knightely tells Emma what he thinks of her behaviour. Emma is very sad about it. Frank's aunt dies and after that he tells everybody he was secretly engaged with Jane Fairfax.

Emma feels sorry for Harriet, because she thought that Harriet was in love with Frank.

Harriet tells her that she wasn't in love with him, but that she's actually in love with Mr. Knightly. Emma thinks that Mr. Knightely loves her back. But it is till then that she "discovers" that it's actually her that is in love with Mr. Knightely

One day Mr. Knightely asks Emma to marry him because he loves her, and she says yes. But they're going to live at Hartfield, because Emma doesn't want to leave her father alone.

One day Harriet comes in and tells Emma that she met Mr. Martin again and that he asked her to marry him again, only now she said yes. Both marriages were concealed within a month.