MOD B - EMMA QUOTES (FLASHCARDS)

emma opening tricolon - her wealth

“emma woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich”

emma’s unchallenged privilege enables her delusion

“the real evil’s of emma’s situation was the power of having rather too much her own way” + “so unpercieved”

emma views herself to be…

“always first and always right”

Susie Hogarth says about FID…

“[Emma] was designed to share in her delusions…[creating] a novel… that is slowly uncovered”

emma FID - harriet + matchmaking

“she would notice her, she would improve her”

matchmaking is emma’s…

“greatest amusement in the world”

harriet is of…

“uncertain parentage”

emma tells harriet that mr. martin is

“clownish, so totally without air”

terry hyland states that emma’s initial character is…

“founded on pride and self-aggrandisement”

knightley is…

“one of the few people who could see faults in emma woodhouse”

knightley’s advice is so significant because he challenges emma’s hyperbolically “evil” situation as one that…

“afforded no equals”

box hill - knightley scolds emma for cruelty

“it was badly done, indeed! she is poor… her situation should secure your compassion”

knightley remonstrates emma’s…

“unpardonable arrogance”

emma’s meddling matchmaking behaviour… knightley highlights that people should be treated as ends, not means (kantian), as humans rather than entertainment

“produces every sort of mischief”

knightley corrects emma’s assumptions about mr. martin not good enough for harriet

“he is far her superior in sense and situation” + “poor, vulgar farmer”

Mrs. Elton is…

“a vain woman, thinking much of her own importance”

mrs. elton’s superficiality and materialism

“barouche landau”

emma thinks mrs. elton is a…

“little upstart, vulgar being”

jane fairfax’s…

“heart and situation had received every advantage of discipline and culture” + “no advantage of connexion”

emma sees jane as…contrasting with the fact that her upbringing…

“the really accomplished young woman which she wanted to be thought herself” “united some of the best blessings in existence”

FID - knightley makes emma…

“feel the want of being better”

FID - emma’s embarrassment

“never had she felt so mortified, agitated, grieved”

FID - emma acknowledges her…

“insufferable vanity”

emma is determined to change

“she was often remiss… but she should be so no more”

emma’s wedding is…

“much like other weddings, with no taste for finery or parade”

emma focuses on…mirroring knightley’s lack of concern for grandeur or ostentatiousness → highlights her moral transformation from one of superficiality and preoccupation with Regency-era ideas of class to an empathetic version THROUGH KNIGHTLEY

“perfect happiness of the union”