Theme of Marriage and Match-making in Emma
Jane Austen’s Emma tells
a story about a young woman named Emma Woodhouse who has interest in
matchmaking people. Her nanny, Miss Taylor, who gets married with Mr. Weston is
the result of Emma’s matchmaking. Emma does not have interest to get married at
the beginning but at the end of the story, she finally drops her heart to Mr.
Knightley. In dominant, themes depicted in Emma are marriage and social class.
These points will be discussed in here.
Jane Austen is well-known
with her marriage stories. All of her novels use woman character as the main of
the story or even the “star” of it. Alike her other works, Austen also puts
marriage as the main theme in Emma story. Emma does some matchmaking actions in
the story. In the beginning of the story, the marriage of Miss Taylor and Mr.
Weston becomes the trending topic between Emma and her father. She thinks that
their marriage is because of her effort in courtship and matchmaking them. Due
to this success, according to her, that leads to match other people which none
of them work.
The first one is the
matchmaking between Harriet Smith and Mr. Elton. She believes that Mr. Elton
has a crush on Harriet that is why she tries to make a relationship between
them. But, the disaster comes out when Mr. Elton proposes her instead. Mr.
Elton says that he never has such feeling toward Harriet. This first disaster
does not kill the matchmaking plan of Emma. She tries to match Harriet with Frank
Churchill but Harriet herself pays her attention on Mr. Knightley. In the end
of the story, Harriet gets married with Robert Martin, the one who Emma
convinces Harriet to reject his proposal............................
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