Emma
(Jane Austen)
Emma, by Jane Austin, is another of the romantic classic
manners comedies that Jane Austin excels at writing so much. This one
details the matchmaking successes and failures of a young noblewoman who thinks
she knows everything there is to know about the world and just how it should be
run.
When Emma's former governess gets married, Emma prides herself on having made
the match herself, and declares that she is an expert matchmaker and therefore
will help her other acquaintances make good matches as well. Although her
good friend and brother in law, Mr. Knightly, warns her against this plan, Emma
is determined to match the local pastor with her friend Miss Smith. Miss
Smith is hard to match, however, as her parents are unknown and she was raised
by a schoolteacher in town with no one to help her get into good society.
Emma is determined to take her under her wing and teach her as her governess
had taught Emma.
Emma works hard at putting her intendeds together, but things begin to get
sticky when she discovers that there are more reasons for getting married than
a supposed good match. Some people care more for money, or even, oddly
enough to Emma, love. And what will happen when Emma is caught up in a
possible match for herself? It seems that while Emma may know about
matches, she knows next to nothing about love, and so she may end up hurting
her good friends rather than helping them as she intended.
Emma is a wonderful novel about a young woman discovering that love does exist
and that it is wonderful even when it is not convenient in a well placed
match. Austin shows us the
power of friendship blossoming into love and the many reasons for marrying all
falling to nothing at the feet of real, true love. Once again she brings
the true meaning of love to the surface through the society of the day.
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