In Jane Austen's novel of education and social class, Emma, the relationships between irony, intuition and education are based on the premise of the character of Emma Woodhouse herself. Emma's character is portrayed through her ironic and naive tone as she is perceived as a character who seems to know everything, which highlights the comical disparities of ironies within the narrative. Emma is seen as a small fish in a larger pond, subject to manipulating people to reflect her own perceptions and judgments. His education is the moral recognition of love outside of his hidden fantasies and his understanding of society as a whole. Within the novel, Jane Austen's feats of irony are shown to be linked to Emma's notions of love and reality within her own society. Emma’s lack of education on the concepts of love is quite evident in her apathy towards Frank Churchill as his views are deeply rooted in her affections, as she states: “Emma continued to have no doubts about her being in love. His ideas varied only regarding quantity. At first he thought it was a good deal; and after, but not much. She was very pleased to hear of Frank Churchill; and for her sake, greater pleasure than ever in seeing Mr. and Mrs. Weston; she thought about him very often. But on the other hand she could not admit that she was unhappy, nor, after the first morning, less disposed than usual to work; she was still busy and cheerful; and, pleasant as she was, he could still imagine that she had flaws" (Austen 264). Harriet's sketch of Emma is another illustration of the irony surrounded by Emma's arrogance as it does not portray an accurate representation of Harriet as Emma altered... half of the paper... ghtley humiliates Emma and makes her rethink her rude and insensitive treatment of others Author Jane Austen had a portrait of the arrogance that existed in upper class society Use Emma as representative of her society's flaws and lack of values. Just as Emma contains all of these flaws, the upper class society as a whole also contains these many flaws. Furthermore, in Emma, Austen depicts the distorted views of kindness describes its own message of true kindness by creating characters of different class ranks Bradbury reports that socially elevated characters appear to be morally inferior and those of lower status are “elevated” by their actions (Austen 81). Austen's character development, especially Emma, is very effective in conveying her message about the snobbery and lack of kindness that existed in upper-class society..
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