The Rewarding of the Undeserving
Women are breed in a society where the concept of marriage is interwoven into every aspect of a woman's life. It may be said that the women in today's society are no different or better than those in the early 1800s. Most women allow their lives to revolve around men and pay no heed to fellow sisters they wound in the process. An honest woman will affirm that she despises a devious woman but only because she can not muster the strength, to use such a trait for her own benefit. Jane Austen presents Emma Woodhouse, a manipulative, proud, and vicious woman who gains a happy ending even as her personality should have damned her to the life of a spinster.
Jane Austen introduces Emma as the epitome of women in her era. "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex......
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