As the two of them discuss Emma and Harriet's friendship, the reader is able to detect certain opinions they each have regarding this young lady. ... Knightley says that he is unsure about Emma's friendship with Harriet because Harriet has nothing to teach Emma. ... She sees that this friendship is making Emma happy, because without it Emma would be very alone at Hartfield. ... Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? ...

• Word Count: 1855
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The men think us incapable of real friendship you know, and I am determined to shew them the difference. (p27) This rather lengthy account effectively functions as a catalogue of Isabella's own virtues, and exposes the true Isabella. ... Catherine chooses not to pay attention to its claims of friendship and propriety, but to its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood', and refuses to be deceived by such a strain of shallow artifice' (p201). ... We may study the character of Mr Wickham , whose fazade of impeccable manners and air of integrity prevents the immediat...

• Word Count: 1637
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is Emma's independent fortune and the anonymity of Harriet's parentage that allows Emma to have friendship and the authority to manipulate Harriet. ... When Harriet's parentage (her father being a tradesman) and her engagement to Robert Martin is revealed Emma realizes that her friendship with Harriet must "change into a calmer sort of good-will", i.e. reduce their intimacy to an acquaintance because of their different social positions. ... Often the views of Austen are perceived through Mr Knightley who is the "true English gentleman". ...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She absorbed all her incidences with pain and acceptance, and found true happiness. ... Too shortly did their friendship end when Isabella, a person Catherine thought to be honourable and true, fell in love with Captain Tilney, leaving her brother in a bitter agony. ... Unfortunately, this is not the case, and through experience and humiliation Catherine is able to find a little more knowledge behind her true identity. ... Catherine has now been able to piece together her pains and emotions to fit a specific image of her true identity. ...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6

This seems to be true because of the drastic differing personalities of Bingley, and his friend, Darcy. ... Although Darcy was at first viewed as a striking, handsome man, his true colors eventually reveal that his looks are not enough to make him a desirable man. ... These prejudices stick with Elizabeth for the majority of the novel, and eventually stand in the way of her finding true happiness. ... At this point, Elizabeth never once doubts Wickham's sincerity or honesty, but rather immediately assumes that everything he is telling her is true. ... This is clear when she says, "He ...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Jane Austen is one of the most prominent women novelists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Out of all her novels, Pride and Prejudice is by far most popular as well as the most critically acclaimed novel. This novel deals with the politics of love and marriage observed in the transition per...

• Word Count: 2459
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Knightley, to confess her true feelings, but for fear of embarrassing herself if he didn't return the feelings she gave to him, she remained silence, contemplating what to say to him. ... Knightley to let Emma know that he cares for her beyond friendship; he lets her know that she is too good for Frank, and showing his hatred towards Frank, says of Jane, "I am sorry for her. ... However Emma isn't sure if it is really possible that Knightley wants her and does not want Harriet, because of the fear of being wrong, and the pure shock of the possibility that her dreams are about to come...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School