mr. woodhouse: 7 years ago, i lost my dear daughter isabella. such a pity.
isabella: i literally live just 16 miles away and i'm married, not dead
mr. woodhouse: sometimes i can still hear her voice...
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Remember that part in Emma where she's trying to convince her dad to let her marry Mr. Knightley, and Mr. Woodhouse is like: "Mr. Knightley could not be there too often; he should be glad to see him every day;—but they did see him every day as it was.—Why could not they go on as they had done?"
After he said that, do you think Emma was thinking this and wishing she could give this as an answer as to why they couldn't keep things exactly as they were:
Because that's what I was thinking
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theres just something so deeply tender about the relationship between Emma Woodhouse and her father. like Jane Austen really broke out the big guns to depict such a tender, sensitive relationship between a father and a daughter without losing the flaws of the characters or making something unbearably sweet.
when Jane Austen decided to write Emma one of her main goals was to create an unlikeable heroine and honestly? she does do a pretty good job of that. Emma does behave poorly throughout the novel, turning people into her little playthings, letting her insecurities dictate her behaviour and of course the infamous Miss Bates insult.
but through her love of her father Emma never becomes someone we stop rooting for. Jane Austen shows how Emma isnt some irredeemable, selfish person. shes lonely and misguided but shes also full of love and care for the person who depends on her competely.
shes never seen the sea! she declares she will never marry because she cant leave him! she trys to reject Mr Knightley because she wont even move to the estate next door without her father!
and she never resents him!
Emma loves and cares for her Father, she might laugh at some of his quirks and hurt others feeling but she never wishes to leave him just to make her life easier. i think it shows Jane Austen at her most tender and kind, even in trying to create a flawed heroine who can act in a genuinely unpleasant way towards others Austen also creates one of the most heart-warming parent/child relationships in all of her books.
idk i can never truly dislike Emma Woodhouse because we see so clearly how she is not a bad person at heart. she makes mistakes and she regrets them and she puts her fathers happiness above her own always! she means a lot to me!
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I'm not sure why, but when I think about Mr Woodhouse, I dislike him? There's something about how Emma has to manage him whilst her sister got married and moved to London and the fact that Emma is the manager of her father that I dislike.
I haven't read Emma in a few months so I'm not sure if my opinion makes sense or I've just misremembered it.
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"young ladies are very delicate plants"
-Mr Woodhouse, Emma.
Bitch, please. I'M A CACTUS. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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They are married from the beginning and it takes them the whole novel to realize it.
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Watching Jane Austen adaptations back to back makes me realize that making Knightley not very tall was a bold decision in Emma because for some reason every single director synced minds and agreed on making every single male lead just fucking super tall. (Plus Jane was into that shit so they’re really respecting her wishes)
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