Boekverslag Jane Austen

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Titels van Jane Austen

• Emma (12)

  1816

• Northanger Abbey (1)

  1798

• Persuasion (1)

  1817

• Pride and prejudice (23)

  1813

• Sense and sensibility / Verstand en onverstand (13)

  1811

Summary (160 words)

Emma Woodhouse is twenty years old and lives with her father in Highbury. Harriet Smith is her friend, she is seventeen years old and adores Emma. Emma wants to match Harriet to the vicar Mr. Elton, but he asks Emma to marry him! She refuses. One day, Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax, are both coming to town.

Mr. Knightley, the brother of Emma’s sisters husband, doesn’t like Frank, but Emma wants to match Frank to Harriet. After a while, Frank tells everyone that he and Jane have been engaged. Harriet says that she doen’t care, because she loves Mr. Knightley.

When Emma hears that, she discovers that she’s in love with him too. One day, Mr. Knightley asks Emma to marry him. Emma says yes. When Harriet hears that, she gets angry. After a while Harriet meets Emma again, and she tells Emma that she is going to marry Robert Martin, a farmer. Both marriages are concealed in a month.

The story takes place in Highbury, England, around 1880.

Genre
It is a love story.

Title explanation
The title is Emma, after the maincharacter of the book.

Description of the maincharacters
- Emma is a young, clever and rich girl., she is spoilt and always wants her way. She keeps on making matches between people and that’s why she loses her own chance of love.
- Harriet is a seventeen years-old girl. She is beautiful, but not smart. She falls in love easily.
- Mr. Knightley is the brother of the husband from Isabella, Emma’s sister. He knows Emma really good and is not afraid of telling her the truth

Theme
There are two themes in this story. The growing up of a young, rich girl and matching other people, but losing your own chance of love.

Beginning/end
In the beginning of the story the gouverness, Mrs. Taylor, married Mr. Weston, so she left the house of Emma. Emma becomes lonely and meets Harriet, a girl who falls in love easily.
At the end of the story, Emma married Mr. Knightley, the brother of her sisters husband.

My opinion
In the beginning I thought it was an awful book, but after a few chapters the book becomes much better. The character of Emma is really good and especially the way it’s written. I didn’t expect the book to end the way it did, so it was really surprising. I think that everyone should read this wonderful book.