Emma by Jane Austin

Emma by Jane Austen
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I'm having a really hard time sticking with this particular read. This, Madame Bovery & David Copperfield threw me into the worst reading slump I've ever been in.

I am not an Emma fan. I can not stand someone nosing into other peoples' business, and think they can play "God" with someone's future or emotions. It's wrong, and to top it off the superiority complex that she has about herself. WTF is that? Someone please explain it to me.?.

In fact it just makes me uncontrollably angry, and I'm afraid my face will get stuck in a permanent scowl...

To me it seems that any woman of wealth and culture were doomed to be extremely bored, and devoid of enjoyment. I'm surprised by Austin in this writing actually, as she wrote the perspective of an aristocrat, when she had always written about poorer prospects. Yes, she wrote about the nobles, but very rarely did she use them as her main characters. I think Austin was intentionally ribbing the Ton when she wrote this.

It seemed that she was facing a difficult period and was taking out her frustrations from life on and in her writing. Emma was merely the result of it.

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