Thursday 24 September 2020

EMMA, by Jane Austen

Emma, by Jane Austen

Instructions:

1 1.You are going to work in groups of up to 9 students. Your document must not be more than 2 pages long (A4 , Arial 12, double spacing, justified paragraphs) and must contain 3-4 extracts to illustrate each topic you’re asked to explore.

2.Cite your sources properly. You’re advised to use the sources already provided to you by your teacher in your booklet. If you use other sources, acknowledge them properly both in your in-text citations and in your references ( at the end of your document).

YOUR ANALYSIS SHOULD INCLUDE:

1) In INTRODUCTION to introduce what you are analysing, book and author, in one paragraph.

2) Topic sentences for each paragraph of your analysis to signal what the paragraphs are about.Then an explanation backed up by the extracts.

3) You must analyse your topics using the sources provided by me and citing them in your References at the end of your document. The novel should be cited as one of your sources as well.

3 4)You must find 3-4 extracts for each topic, where the main ideas in your analysis are clearly shown. Cite the author whenever you quote from the novel: (Austen 34).
5)Your document must be 2 pages long (A 4 – ARIAL 12 – double spacing – justified paragraphs).
6) DO NOT write the extracts alone, because in that case, there is no actual analysis and your readers won't understand what your analysis is about.
7) A CONCLUSION to round up ALL your arguments.
8) You can start with a quote pertinent to your area of analysis if you like, before the introduction.

8 9) Proper heading:

Instituto Superior del Profesorado Nº 4, Ángel Cárcano

ENGLISH LITERATURE II

Analysis of Emma, by Jane Austen

Group members: ___________________

GROUPS: 1) Genre (The Novel of Manners) ; 2) Features of Jane Austen's Style; 3) Themes in Emma (focus on no more than 3 themes).

You must share your production with me by email on SATURDAY 3rd, OCTOBER - 9:00 AM DEADLINE for publication in the Blog: THURSDAY 15th, OCTOBER - 08:00 AM

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Milagros Pérez7 October 2020 at 17:54
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Milagros Pérez7 October 2020 at 17:58
Instituto Superior del Profesorado Nº 4, Ángel Cárcano
English Literature I
Analysis of the Features of Jane Austen's Style in Emma, by Jane Austen

Group 2: Carosino, Daiana; Corgniali, Daiana; Pérez, Milagros; Petrucci, Giuliana; Roldán, Julia; Quatrín, Paula; Zalazar, Magalí; Zechín, Milena.

Introduction
Emma is the fourth novel written by Jane Austen, which was published in three different volumes during the year 1815. Austen is distinguished from other authors of the time for the particular narrative style employed in her novels, especially in Emma. Through the use of Free Indirect Discourse and Irony, she intends to expose the lives of those who dwell in a rural community during the Regency Period in England. (Bracken 1) The aim of this analysis is to explore these features of style which make her writing unique.

Features of Style Free Indirect Discourse is one of the recurrent methods of narration adopted by Jane Austen. She is well-known for using this technique in order to portray the emotions, feelings and thoughts of her characters. (Gunn 1)
Besides, this narrative technique is characterised by the combination of the features of first-person direct speech and the attributions of the third-person indirect speech. (Gunn 1) One clear example of Free Indirect Discourse can be seen in this quote: “She thought it would be an excellent match; and only too palpably desirable, natural, and probable, for her to have much merit in planning it.” (Austen 26) Moreover, this technique allows the readers to identify the characters’ thoughts creating a space for interaction between the narrator and the readers and leading to an understanding of the main topic of the novel, which is the unfair judgment that the characters, mainly Emma, make. (Dolores 1) An example of this is reflected in the following quote: “She felt it at her heart. How could she have been so brutal, so cruel to Miss Bates! How could she have exposed herself to such ill opinion in any one she valued! ”. (Austen 303)
Furthermore, in Emma, Irony is another literary technique extensively used by Austen. Her use of sarcasm highlights the weakness of the characters and their society. This fact is clearly reflected when Austen criticises the marriage market and talks about characters that she does not like. (Barry 1) For instance, in the following extract: “My dear Mrs Weston, do not take to match making. You do it very ill”. (Austen 178) Emma doubts Mrs Weston’s ability as a match-maker since she already has original plans for the couples.
The author also employs verbal irony when Emma suggests that Miss Bates is boring, using a mocking comment and making her feel slightly hurt. (Barry 1) This is clearly expressed in the following extract: “(...) exclaimed Miss Bates; (...) I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan’t I?’ (...) ‘Do you not all think I shall?’ Emma could not resist. ‘Ah! ma'am, but there may be a difficulty. Pardon me, but you will be limited as to number — only three at once.” (Austen 299)
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Valentina López10 October 2020 at 09:20
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Valentina López10 October 2020 at 09:22
Instituto Superior del Profesorado Nº 4, Ángel Cárcano
ENGLISH LITERATURE I
Analysis of “Society and Class” in Emma, by Jane Austen

Group 3: Gregoret Ana Paula, Bublitz Ailen, Darán Melisa, Lopez Valentina, Lovey Erica, Manzatto Carlo, Mendoza Lara, Verón Ornela.

Introduction
Jane Austen’s Emma, published in 1815, is centred around the young character of the same name, Emma Woodhouse, a privileged heiress (Bracken 1). In this analysis, we will focus on the theme of “Society and Class” which is prominent in Austen’s novel.
Society and Class
Most of Jane Austen’s novels perfectly describe life in England in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In Emma, social status determines the social responsibilities between the characters and the manner in which their acts respond to those responsibilities (Tam 1).
The fact that she belongs to a wealthy family, allows Emma to interact with other characters of the same social standing (such as Mr Knightley). At the same time, Austen, through Emma, encourages the compassion and the charity of the upper classes towards those less fortunate and the importance of class distinctions, where we find the rich landowners, the social climbers who aim to look wealthy and powerful, and the poor, who are at the mercy of the upper class (Ross 1). A clear example of the latter is Harriet, who was abandoned and was raised in a Ladies’ School but whose dubious origins (her father may be someone noble or rich but she is her bastard child) does not help her in the marriage market ( Who would want to marry a penniless bastard?). She depends on Emma’s generosity. Miss Woodhouse wants Harriet to climb the social ladder and persuades her to refuse Mr Martin’s marriage proposal because Emma thinks that - with Harriet’s sweetness and good looks - she may catch a better suitor than a simple farmer (Ramsson 1).
In view of her social standing, the protagonist Emma, criticises Mr. Martin’s “lack of gentility” contrasting it with Mr. Elton, Mr. Weston and Mr Knightley’s manners, whom she finds superiors (Tam 1).
"Mr. Knightley's air is so remarkably good that it is not fair to compare Mr. Martin with him. You might not see one in a hundred with a gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley. But he is not the only gentleman you have been lately used to. What do you say to Mr. Weston and Mr. Elton? Compare Mr. Martin with either of them. Compare their manner of carrying themselves; of walking; of speaking; of being silent. You must see the difference." (Austen 24).
In Austen’s time, good manners and politeness was an expectation and a quality of the upper class since this was evidence of a proper education that raised their social position. Good breeding was expected from a member of the upper classes - the concept of ‘Noblesse Oblige’ , the notion that privilege entails responsibility (Koziar 3).
But belonging to upper classes also conditioned rich landowners at the time of choosing a partner. In Emma, it limits Frank’s actions as well as a desire to be with the woman he loves, Jane Fairfax (Tam 1). Jane is at the bottom of the social ladder, an orphan and she depends on other people's good graces. If her father's friend did not help her, she would have lived in isolation and ignorance. “(…) at 3 years old on losing her mother she became the property, the charge, the consolation, the fondling of her grandmother and aunt (…) growing up with no advantages of connection or improvements(…) ” (Austen 127).
Despite her situation, Frank is in love with Jane but he can not marry her until he receives his inheritance. If he does it, he runs the risk of losing his so awaited legacy. As regards Frank’s family, she is not a suitable match (Tam 1).
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Valentina López10 October 2020 at 09:23
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Unknown10 October 2020 at 21:21
Instituto Superior de Profesorado N°4 “Ángel Cárcano”
Reconquista - Santa Fe

English Literature I
2nd Year

“Genre”
In Jane Austen’s Emma

Teacher: Varela, Raquel.
Deadline: October 3rd, 2020.
Students: Alanís, Geronimo; Cian, Maria Emilia; Fabrissin, Kevin; Ledesma, Diego; Moreyra, Fabio; Rubianes, Ariana; Rubianes, Loreley; Tortul, Denis.

Introduction
Jane Austen is an English novelist who was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire. Most of her novels describe the life of a young woman as she develops through the novel facing the challenges of life, influenced by love, marriage, social status and family relationships. Emma was published in 1815, and the plot develops around the life of its heroine, Emma Woodhouse, (Southam 1-5) a “handsome, clever, and rich” woman (Austen 1). In the novel, she is constantly portrayed aiming at matching her friends in matrimony (Southam 4). In this analysis, the main focus will be placed on the genre she used for Emma, the novel of manners.

The Novel of Manners
This genre is an ironical and intelligent form of prose that portrays and constantly satirises the manners and attitudes of society through the characters of the novel. Emma is one of Austen’s novels that helped to develop the novel of manners representing “an attack upon the follies and foibles of human society” (Peterman 2-71). As the author depicts it in the following quotation:

“Mrs. Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own importance; that she meant to shine and be very superior, but with manners which had been formed in a bad school, pert and familiar; that all her notions were drawn from one set of people, and one style of living; that if not foolish she was ignorant, and that her society would certainly do Mr. Elton no good.” (Austen 217)

It is through Emma Woodhouse’s thoughts and attitudes that Austen criticises not only the manners and characteristics of the society that surrounds her, but also demonstrates how much emphasis the author places on the differences between social classes. (Bracken 3-4)

In the following extract, Austen shows the readers what Emma thinks about Robert Martin, a neighbour of lower rank:
“A young farmer, whether on horseback or on foot, is the very last sort of person to raise my curiosity. The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do. A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other. But a farmer can need none of my help, and is therefore in one sense as much above my notice as in every other he is below it.” (Austen 21, 22)

Despite his social status, Robert Martin accurately portrays the manners of a gentleman, according to Mr. Knightley: "Robert Martin's manners have sense, sincerity, and good-humour to recommend them; and his mind has more true gentility than Harriet Smith could understand." (Austen 50) For Mr. Knightley these virtues are far more important than the social conception of a gentleman “His good sense and good principles would delight you.—As far as the man is concerned, you could not wish your friend in better hands. His rank in society I would alter if I could, which is saying a great deal I assure you, Emma.” (Austen, 442)
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