THE IRONIC VISION IN EMMA
Emma of all the novels of Jane Austen is very much remarkable for
irony, which has become an organic part of the novel both intrinsically and
extrinsically. The author carefully chooses a theme which is largely pregnant
with ironic implications. She builds her novels exclusively on the theme of
self-deception of the heroine and her gradual realization. Emma, the heroine,
living in a world of illusion for a long time, commits grave blunders which
have serious repurcussions. Graham Hough says, “Emma’s attempts at match-making
are her most serious mistakes”.1 But for quite a long period
she is unaware of her limitations and lives long in self-deception.
Though Miss Austen had dealt upon these themes
in the earlier novels like Northanger Abbey, Sense and
Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, there the theme
of self-deception is not principal one and it is treated with equal importance
with other themes, while in this novel it has the central and pivotal role, and
it is both thematically and structurally the basis on which the entire superstructure
of the novel is built. Even in Northanger Abbey the heroine is
a victim of one type of deception which comes to her mainly on account of
inexperience and the reading of unhealthy fiction like Radciffean novels. Lack
of proper education makes her personality incomplete and with the association
of Henry Tilney, the proper man, she comes to realise the affairs of the world
in a right perspective...............................................................................................................
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