major conflict Emma struggles to shed her vanity and her fear of confronting her own feelings, both of which cause her to misunderstand those around her and to meddle harmfully in the lives of others. rising action Emma realizes that she was horribly wrong to think she could make a match between Mr.

All the events in Emma happen in a chronological order thus creating a linear structure. It is from here onwards that Emma faces reality. The plot then attempts to resolve the entanglements that her misguided efforts have caused.

York’s status as a ‘player’. The narrative climaxes with the death of Emma at the train station. She saw her husband with the mysterious lady and runs away, followed closely by Dorian and Jack. Unfortunately, when Jack caught her by the arm, she ran into the path of an oncoming vehicle and was killed.

Emma Woodhouse

Background. Living in genteel poverty with her ageing widow of a mother, and only one servant, Miss Bates was nonetheless on visiting terms with the best in Highbury society. At the same time, she was dependent on her neighbours for much support – pork from Mr.

John Knightley

Within a month, Emma and Mr. Knightley marry and, because Mr. Woodhouse can’t face life without his daughter, Mr. Knightley gallantly moves in with Emma and her father at their estate, Hartfield.

Emma is reserved because she fears that Knightley will confide his attachment to Harriet, but Knightley mistakes Emma’s reserve for grief at the loss of Frank.

Emma Woodhouse and her sister Isabella are the only children of Mr. Woodhouse, whose estate, Hartfield, is not entailed or otherwise legally encumbered. Upon Mr. Woodhouse’s death there will be plenty of money to keep the two sisters from want.

Here and in the cinematic versions, Emma contrasts Miss Bates with herself as she would be if she remained single. Emma is contemptuous of Miss Bates because of her lack of social consequence, her excessive admiration for her niece (whom Emma envies), and her boring conversation.

When the two would-be lovers finally confess their feelings to one another, Emma realizes that she’s been wrong all along in her assumption that Knightley was wooing Harriet, and yet ecstatic from his confession of love for Emma herself. The confusing mix of emotions causes Emma to have a spontaneous nosebleed.

Bates is a character in Emma. She is a very old lady, and “past everything but tea and quadrille”. She was married to the vicar of Highbury before his death. She lives with her single daughter, Miss Bates, in Highbury.

Why does Frank flirt with Emma? He wants to marry her. He wants to conceal his preference for another. He wants to conceal the fact that he is gay.

Emma eventually learns her own feelings for Frank Churchill and calms herself to the point where they are just friends in her eyes, and two chapters in volume III from Mr. Knightly’s perspective (Chapters V and VI) nicely explain that, while he is biased, he also has legitimate concerns over Mr.

Towards the end of Season 6, Emma and Killian actually got married. When Morrison returned to wrap-up Emma’s story in Episode 2 of Season 7, it was revealed they were having their first baby.

He is an amiable young man, who manages to be liked by everyone except Mr. Knightley, who considers him quite immature, partially due to his jealousy of Frank’s supposed ‘pursuit’ of Emma.

He is also obligated to keep his engagement to Jane Fairfax a secret until his aunt’s passing, so as to maintain his Churchill inheritance.

Emma learns to appreciate the contributions of farmers like Robert Martin and Mr. Knightley’s able assistant, William Larkins. In fact, by the end of the novel, Emma Woodhouse Knightley is richer than ever, but money itself has never been her problem.