| Title | : | Emma |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
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| Number of Pages | : | 474 |
Read online Emma.pdf PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, DOC Emma This novel had everything I could possibly dislike: One, a female lead thats an annoying meddler and busybody whose immature and snobbish entitlement leads her to cause mischief, who indulges in bouts of blatant hypocrisy and whose regrets at the bad results of her behaviour is paper-thin at best, and who, in typical Austen fashion, never really pays the consequences because in the end everything is right for her and for the woman she damaged with her actions. I dont get along well with meddlers of this nature, and when they dont weather the outcome its particularly tiresome. I wish Austen had the courage to make her characters pay for the logical consequences of certain actions instead of shoving a happily ever after down our throats. Two, the plot is superfluous. A rich and handsome girl whos so bored that she entertains herself by matchmaking for people she doesnt really know that well? Doesn´t work even as an amusing comedy because the consequences are serious even though the author tries her hardest to smooth them out by the end.Three, after a while, Austens tone starts to sound sanctimonious, judgy and preachy, especially because of the things she chooses to focus her darts on. Besides, she tends to use the tell, tell, tell, tell a time too many as if wanting us to think of the character a certain way instead of letting us draw our own conclusions from the story itself. Ive been noticing this for a while, perhaps because Ive read all her novels fairly close to each other, and in time her style can grate.Four, perhaps her biggest weakness as a writer: she cannot wrap up a story at swordpoint! She just cannot. All her novels, even the best written, have terrible epilogues, some less terrible than others perhaps. And when the story isnt so good, the bad endings leave an even worse impression.I could go on citing all the things I disliked in this book, were it not that it was so exhausting that I just want to leave it behind me. A moderately good point was that the male lead was nice enough, but he cant save the novel all by himself. by Jane Austen
