Social acceptability, financial practicality, similar social standing, shared virtues, matching talents, comparable charm and beauty, and similar dispositions are all components that present themselves with different degrees of importance in the marriage calculations of different characters. Emma is as convincing as our own lives and has the same kind of concreteness. Emma is the first of Jane Austen’s novels to feature a heroine who is free from financial concerns. Social acceptability, financial practicality, similar social standing, shared virtues, matching talents, comparable charm and beauty, and similar dispositions are all components that present themselves with different degrees of importance in the marriage calculations of different characters. Chapter one tackles the theme of marriage which is considered the dominant theme in Jane Austen's Emma - and almost all of Jane Austen’s works and it is always shown in the woman’s point of view -it begins with a marriage of Miss Taylor with . Jane Austen’s Plots Jane Austen’s plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.


Emma deals with many visions of what marriage entails. Courtship and marriage. Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). As in all of Austen’s novels, courtship and marriage play major roles in “Emma.” The entire novel is structured around various courtships and romantic connections, from Harriet and Robert Martin to Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill to Emma and Mr. Knightley. 6 Emma serve which had soon followed Isabella’s marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recol-lection. Her fortune assures her of independence and security. Emma deals with many visions of what marriage entails. She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, know-ing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns,

She achieved success as a writer her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818. While other Austen heroines view marriage as a financial necessity, Emma expresses no interest or desire to marry for the majority of the novel. relationship.