Her reference to it as "being the greatest amusement in the world" seems to show Emma's feeling of superiority based on her inflated sense of intelligence, education and social status. ... He states, "Jane Fairfax has feeling her sensibilities, I suspect, are strong and her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience and self-control." ...
In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. ... Besides this, his "misery pictures" reveal how the pain and despair present in the world has caused him to have a sense of homelessness, for his search for meaning and fulfillment in life take him to the country, and back still unfulfilled. ... Besides this there is a sense conveyed to the reader in the novel that the evil spirits in the room have be...
