... have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blamable distrust. How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning ... of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either ... insult, hastily quiets Elizabeth. This shows the contrast between Elizabeth and Mrs. Bennet. Elizabeth...

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... and good example. Austen makes it abundantly clear that Emma's deficiencies are a product of her upbringing. Her existence has been too privileged. She has been made to feel too important and has received far too much praise and deference from her peers. She has not had to earn the respect of others, or acknowledge a superior authority. As a consequence, she lacks self-discipline, has ... no compunction to work, and therefore fails to develop the full potential of such an intelligent woman. She is arrogant, egotistical and controlling. She ... revert to her former supercilious attitude...

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