Pages 147-188
Emma already likes Mr. Frank Churchill, and she hasn't even met him yet. Just from the gossip of her neighbors she has created her own personality for him. The author still hasn't exactly given me much information about Frank Churchill. Jane Austen has kept him a mystery. Also the interaction with Jane and Frank is weird to me. Jane said she met him, but she made it seem like they barely talked, however when Frank talks to Emma he knows a great deal of Jane. I think the very limited interaction of both characters and their mysterious presence is foreshadowing a relationship between the two. I think their is something going on between the two characters that they want to be hidden. Of course, I don't think Emma can be anymore jealous of Jane than she already is. Mr Knightley on the other hand seems to dislike Frank Churchill. Is the reason jealousy, due to Emma liking Frank? Because if so, Mr Knightley and Emma seem to fight about everything.
A reoccuring motif in the novel is gossip. The motif helps to develop and inform the text’s major theme. Gossiping is the social way aroung Highbury. It is the common way of life for the upper society and is the way they obtain information. Although gossip is fun for the residents, most of it was untrue and caused conflicts in the novel. For instance, the gossiping of Frank Churchill. Everyone in Highbury has considered him a true and honest fellow who would be a great suitor of a husband, but it is not until much later in the book that they realize he was secretly engaged and was dishonest proving that the information was a lie.
A reoccuring motif in the novel is gossip. The motif helps to develop and inform the text’s major theme. Gossiping is the social way aroung Highbury. It is the common way of life for the upper society and is the way they obtain information. Although gossip is fun for the residents, most of it was untrue and caused conflicts in the novel. For instance, the gossiping of Frank Churchill. Everyone in Highbury has considered him a true and honest fellow who would be a great suitor of a husband, but it is not until much later in the book that they realize he was secretly engaged and was dishonest proving that the information was a lie.
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