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This 5 page paper discusses the similarities and differences between Jane Austen's character, Emma, and Ibsen's character, Thea. Examples given from the texts and quoted. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that both authors espoused the same social causes, do certain characters portray similarities in both their works? Thea Elvsted and Emma Woodhouse are two characters that at first blush seem
somewhat the same. However, upon closer inspection, one can see where each authors point of view diverges from the other, not only in depth of character, but in portrayal of
a womens inner strengths and concerns. The issue of Womens Rights was a hot bed of contention during this time. Women were relegated to second class citizens. Women were
not allowed to vote, to be seen in public without an escort, or to hold property or handle financial matters. Jane Austens, Emma, is an excellent study on the issues
of self worth and identity, but it can also be said another thread runs through the novel. The thread, of course, being the treatment of women and the beginning of
the womens suffrage movement. Austen illuminates the topic of husband hunting and marriage in an acquisitive society and shows most of its aspects and consequences-comic, trivial, sensual, opportunistic, desperate, and
hopeless(About Jane Austen). In the novel, Emma, it would seem that Austen is pointing out the pathetic way in which it was assumed that a woman would jump at the
chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case of the male character, they have
the freedom of choice. Jane Austen repeatedly juxtaposes the reality of marriage and the fantasy of marriage in the Victorian Era. The fact that they are introduced and expressed again
and again in Pride and Prejudice means that Jane Austen held feminist ideals and expressed them in this piece of writing. In her novels, she seems to rail against the
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