Emma Woodhouse characterizatio

Austen uses Emma to follow a cause and effect methodology where all of Emma’s actions affect the plot and the novel as a whole. Emma begins by attempting to further her matchmaking résumé with Harriet and Mr. Elton. This ultimately drives Mr. Elton out of Highbury and brings him back with a wife, the crude and tactless Bertha Hawkins. She serves as an exaggeration of all of Emma’s bad characteristics. Emma continues to try to find Harriet matches throughout the novel and learns by experience that the one man she drove her away from would turn out to be her destined mate. Her flirtations with Frank Churchill dissuade the man that she is has concrete feelings for to confess his love for her. Her frivolity with others lives cause her many problems and she becomes very distressed and vexed, unlike she was at the commencement of the novel. Emma attempts to make several ill suited matches but in return learns to have humility and humbleness after she realizes that she is not apt to match making after all. In due course, Emma acknowledges her foolish actions in the beginning of her life and realizes that her meddlesome nature could have caused much more damage than it had.

Emma's mistakes seriously threaten Harriet's happiness, cause her embarrassment and discomfort, and produce obstacles to her own achievement of true love, but none has lasting consequences. Throughout the novel, Knightley corrects and leads Emma, and, in marrying Knightley, Emma indicates that her judgment has begun to coincide with his. Emma is mature for her age because she has no mother and her sister is alre

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