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A 5 page paper which examines the similarities of these novels, such as how they are representative of their time periods, how they feature women who were clearly before their time, and how rigid socioeconomic class conventions dictated gender roles and marital compatibility. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to test the established social conventions of the day. England in the nineteenth century virtually excluded women from society in their own right. It was comparable to being
a class-oriented elitist club that women only gained admittance through marriage. The heroine of Jane Austens Emma was an independently minded twenty-year-old aristocrat, Emma Woodhouse, who enjoyed playing matchmaker
for herself and others to those she deemed befitted their status. In Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre, the story focuses on an orphans journey toward personal fulfillment by becoming a
governess and finding lasting love in a true partnership of equals. Both novels, while representing the time periods in which they were written were not limited by the socially
imposed constraints of their respective eras. The nineteenth century has been dubbed as the Romantic Age of Western literature. In the early part of the century, gothic novels combined
with romanticism to produce works that were less reliant on atmospheric settings and more on characterizations. Jane Austen saw where her female counterparts languished on the socioeconomic ladder and
apparently didnt like what she saw. By employing the effective device of irony, Austen was able to poke fun at the social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First
published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upper class in English society" (Emma by Jan Austen). The title character is symbolically "representative of the faults
and lack of values of her society" (Emma by Jane Austen). The novels predominant theme is the codependent relationship between marriage and social status. When Emma took underprivileged
orphan Harriet Smith under her protective wing, she prohibited her from marrying farmer Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as too "lower class" (Emma by Jane Austen). The narrative noted,
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