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A 7 page paper which compares the social worlds depicted in each British novel. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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manners and values of the upper class in English society" (Emma by Jane Austen). The title character is symbolically "representative of the faults and lack of values of her
society" (Emma by Jane Austen). In the novel, the predominant theme is the effect marriage of marriage on status, and how the consideration of ones class or social position
dictates behavior, thoughts and attitudes. The significant impact World War I had upon English society during the early twentieth century is considered in Virginia Woolfs 1927 stream of consciousness
novel, To the Lighthouse. Although the patriarchy of the Victorian Age is readily apparent in the characterizations of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay and their respective roles, the changes that
were looming large over the horizon is depicted in the character of the free-spirited artist, Lily Briscoe. In Emma, the novels twenty-year-old protagonist is used to residing atop the social
ladder, but has no idea that her attitudes might be considered by others as condescending. When she befriended the lower-class orphan Harriet Smith, she wanted to improve her life
in any way that she could. What she didnt realize, however, was that she was imposing her social prejudices on Harriet. This is reflected in Emmas refusal to
allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a lower class farmer" (Emma by Jane Austen). Austen explores how the social world reinforced prejudicial
attitudes denoted by the conclusion that Robert Martin is an inappropriate match for Harriet due to his lower class rank: "They were a family of the name of Martin... but
they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect" (16).
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