While reading Emma, I was quite interested in the webs of romance woven around her. Emma is this rich, popular, beautiful girl who usually gets what she wants. She thinks everyone is positively smitten with her, including Frank Churchill. She is jealous of Jane Fairfax and I believe she is ignoring that Frank likes Jane, or that he could possibly be attracted to her at all.
Mr. Knightly is going to play a key factor in the next volume, as far as the web of love is concerned. I think Mr. Knightly is really taken by Emma, and in the end, I predict that Emma and Mr. Knightly will find love with one another. However, I’m not sure Emma is mature enough to handle it.
Emma is parallel to the main plot of the movie clue. Emma is Cher, the rich popular girl and matchmaker, and Mr. Knightly is Josh, Cher’s step brother from a previous marriage who is kind and friendly, but puts Cher in her place. From this pre-requisite, I think the ending of the movie and the ending of the book will be similar, which I am happy about. I think Mr. Knightly will be perfect for Emma because he is not like the fake Mr. Elton, or the somewhat distant Frank Churchill. It will be interesting to see who will end up with who, and which characters ends get tied up.
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eringuydish // October 29, 2008 at 12:51 am
I agree that the love triangles that center around Emma are very interesting. Emma has to be the center of attention all the time even in other people’s relationships. It’s very egocentric and childish of Emma, for all her sophistication and her upper class breeding she acts very much like a child.
ashleyfilipek // October 29, 2008 at 1:24 pm
The love triangles are the most interesting part of this book! Discovering what will happen in terms of the character’s love connections, are what kept me reading.
I also found many parallels between the novel and the movie CLUELESS, leading me to put ideas together about the ending. I don’t want to say CLUELESS ruined the ending for me, but my ideas from the movie’s plot definitely correlated to the novel’s ending.
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