Emma’s Relationship With Harriet and Mr. Elton
The first volume of Jane Austens’ Emma has a dramatic conclusion in which Mr Elton proposes to Emma. Emma’s wild imagination is the source of all the confusion in the novel, as she attempts to match-make the local vicar, Mr Elton and her friend Harriet Smith, who is of a lower social class, with uncertain parentage, (living in a time when status and class were […]