Create a 6 page essay paper that discusses The Maturation of Emma in Jane Austens Emma.As the paper declares Emma also demonstrates her lack of maturity by focusing on externals when judging a person

Create a 6 page essay paper that discusses The Maturation of Emma in Jane Austens Emma.

As the paper declares Emma also demonstrates her lack of maturity by focusing on externals when judging a person’s worth. Her description of Robert Martin dwells on his appearance and lack of gentility. Additionally, she minimises his sense and merit by referring to him as nothing more than a farmer. Conversely, she gives Mr. Elton virtues he does not possess.

This essay stresses that Emma shows a lack of sensitivity for peoples’ feelings by treating them as objects to control. “She had no scruple with regard to” to manipulate him into falling in love with Harriet. Matchmaking is play, and she endeavours to control others without regard for their feelings or regard for each other—quite ironic, since she owns that she could not marry without love. To compound matters, Emma cannot imagine herself to be wrong. She convinces Harriet that Mr. Elton meant the charade for her in absolute terms, “It is a certainty. Receive it on my judgment”. This makes Mr. Elton’s true attachment all the more shocking. When John Knightly suggests that she is Mr. Elton’s object, Emma continues her self-deception and expresses an opinion of her brother that exactly describes herself. She muses on the “ … mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for ever falling into. and not very well pleased with her brother for imagining her blind and ignorant, and in want of counsel”. Trapped in a carriage with Mr. Elton, cut off from everything but the present moment, she experiences his declaration of ardour.