Austen's Author Style In Emma Essay

Everybody looks forward to a social event, whether it be a wedding, party, dance, or any other occasion. In Jane Austen’s novel Emma, Emma Woodhouse, an intelligent and rich twenty-one-year-old who participates in several social events, seeks for love matches. Although she claims to stay single, Emma falls in love with a man and wants to marry him. Being a superior and polite woman, Emma has a dinner party on behalf of Mrs. Elton. The scene helps the reader recognize character’s personalities and the society they live in. Austen develops an author style to create a dinner party scene that reveals characterization and theme.

    Austen reveals many devices of her author style during the dinner party scene. One element is chapter structure. Austen develops three chapters to unveil one party scene. The affect allows the reader an opportunity to understand the characters and their social lives. The medium length chapters are not titled and produce a beginning, middle, and end to the dinner party. The chapters help the reader interpret the scene in more depth. The long sentences are formal and contain fancy vocabulary. The sentence “She suspected that it had; that it would not have been so resolutely encountered but in full expectation of hearing from some one very dear, and that it had not been in vain” reveals the sentence structure, diction, and vocabulary that Austen exerts (277). The length and vocabulary of the sentences suggest the intelligence and superiority of the characters and narrator. Austen also develops an omniscient point of view. Emma’s thoughts “Jane’s solicitude about fetching her own letters had not escaped Emma” and Mr. John Knightley’s thoughts “but his coming would probably prolong than break up a party” suggest that the narrator knows what everyone thinks (276) (282). Austen’s author style helps the reader understand the scene to a greater extent.

      Austen reveals the differences of three women during the party through...