Peruse Character And Conflict In Jane Austens Novels: A Psychological Approach Produced By Bernard J. Paris In Physical Edition

not impressed with the author's logic, I was left with the impression that he wanted to be a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian.
The essay on Emma was repetitive,

Quotes from the essay on EMMA

Overall, the author's belief that Emma's marriage to Mr.
Knightley is not a sign of maturity, but rather a reduction to childhood is based on conclusions that are too strong.
He argues that 'the recognition of her mistakes and of their potentially serious consequences crushes her pride and generates feelings of anxiety and selfcontempt.
No longer confident of her own preeminence and rectitude, she transfers her pride to Knightley and restores her position by submitting to and possessing him.
' This conclusion is rather strong and a bit off, Emma does not surrender to Mr, Knightley. Her growth is akin to the growth of Elizabeth Bennet or Mr, Darcy. Emma comes to recognise that Mr, Knightley has insight that she does not have, She learns to listen and to be guided, not to be controlled,

Each of the protagonists undergoes a period of distress as his or her happiness seems about to be frustrated.


The most important change in Emma, from Jane Austen's point of view, is in her attitude toward herself.
The process is slow, but her overinflated ego is eventually reduced to a proper size, The movement is from pride to humility, from selfaggrandisement to selfcastigation, from selfdelusion to selfknowledge,

The blows to her ego, combined with the prospect of losing Knightley, cure her of her delusions of selfsufficiency.


The heroine errs as a result of her faults, suffers as a result

of her errors, grows as a result of her suffering, and achieves happiness as a result of her growth.

this is a comic education plot, In a tragic education plot, the protagonist grows as a result of his suffering, but is destroyed as a result of his errors.


Emma cannot risk being judged on her best effort, it is safer to remain a prmoising but undisciplined child who could do great things if she tried.
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