Essay on Mr.Woodhouse and Miss Bates in Jane Austens Emma

The Characters ofMr.Woodhouse and scat Bates in Emma The immediate impression one gets of female child Bates is that of a loquacious old biddy, one of Emmas more annoying personalities. further Miss Bates offers a refreshing contrast to the other characters in the impudent, galore(postnominal) of whom harbor hidden agendas and thinly veiled animosities toward perceived rivals. If every study character in Emma is a snob, we might consider Miss Bates the anti-snob. Her very dodgelessness serves as a foil for those in the novel whom present contrived images of themselves or whom look down their noses at others. When she wishing others concern and generosity, as she is constantly found doing, there can be no doubt that her sentiments are genuine, if somewhat misplaced. She always speaks her mind -- moreover then, her mind is always occupied with the good, making her lack of cant lovable rather than overbearing. In the first part of the book, Miss Bates serves not solely as th e anti-snob, but also the anti-Emma. Whereas Emma is described at the outset as being handsome, clever, and rich, Miss Bates enjoys a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Nor, obviously, clever. Life has denied her everything that Emma has been granted and how does Emma treat her, and speak of her to others? Shabbily, of course. If I thought I should ever be like Miss Bates, Emma tells Harriet, who has express concern roughly Emmas choice to remain unmarried, so silly, so satisfied, so smiling, so prosing, so undistinguishing and unfastidious, and so apt to tell everything relative to everybody about me, I would marry to-morrow. She neglects to visit the Bateses often because of all the horror of being in dange... ... York The Oxford University press, 1923-1988.Cookson, Linda, and Brian Loughrey, eds. Critical essays on Emma of Jane Austen. Harlow Longman Literature Guides series, 1988. Craik, W. A. The Development of Jane A ustens comic art Emma Jane Austens mature comic art. capital of the United Kingdom Audio Learning, 1978. Sound recording 1 cassette 2-track. mono. Gard, Roger, 1936- . Jane Austen, Emma and Persuasion. Harmondsworth Penguin, Penguin masterstudies series, 1985. Monaghan, David, ed. Emma, by Jane Austen. New York St. Martins Press, 1992. Parrish, Stephen M, ed. Emma an authoritative text backgrounds, reviews, and criticism. New York W.W. Norton, A Norton slender edition series, 1972,1993. Sabiston, Elizabeth Jean, 1937- . The Prison of Womanhood four provincial heroines in nineteenth-century fiction. London Macmillan, 1987.