1、读书报告爱玛读书报告,爱玛My Reflection On Emma About the author: Jane Austen was a major English novelist, who was born on 16 December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. She was the seventh of eight children and was educated mainly at home and never lived apart fr
2、om her family. She had a happy childhood amongst all her brothers and the other boys who lodged with the family and whom Mr. Austen tutored. From her old sister, Cassandra, she was inseparable. To amuse themselves, the children wrote and performed plays and charades, and even as a little girl Jane w
3、as encouraged to write. The reading that she did of the books in her fathers extensive library provided material for the short satirical sketches she wrote as a girl. At the age of 14 she wrote her first novel, Love and Friendship and then A History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant H
4、istirian, together with other very amusing Juvenilia. In her twenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were later to be re-worked and published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey. After her fathers death in 1805, they all suffered financial difficulties and were for
5、ced to rely on the charity of the Austen sons. It was alsoat that time, while on holiday in the West country, Jane fell in love, and when the young man died, she was deeply upset. Later she accepted a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither, a wealthy landowner and brother to some of her closes
6、t friends, but she changed her mind the next morning and was greatly upset by the whole episode. She never married. Then, in July, 1809, her brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a permanent home on his Chawton estate, which was a small but comfortable house that Jane Austen needed in order
7、to write. In the seven and a half years that she lived in this house, she revised Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudiced and published them(in 1811 and 1813) and then embarked on a period of intense productivity. Mansfiled Park came out in 1814, followed by Emma in 1816 and she completed Per
8、suasion(which was published together with Northanger Abbey in 1818, the year after her death). None of the books published in her life-time had her name on them-they were described as being written “By a Lady”. In the winter of 1816 she started Sanditon, but illness prevented its completion. Jane Au
9、sten had contracted Addisons Disease, a tubercular disease of the kidneys. By May 1817 she was so ill that she and her sister, Cassandra, living near Janes physician, renting rooms in Winchester. Tragically, there was no cure and Jane died in her sisters arms in the early hours of 18 July, 1817. She
10、 was 41 years old. She is buried in Winchester Cathedral. Jane Austens apparent reticence in matters of contemporary politics has often thprovoked comment from critics. Her writing style structured English literature of 18 thcentury neoclassicism and 19 century romanticism. About the novel: Emma is
11、essentially a comedy of manners, a work in which the characters move inside a highly restrictive code of conduct and must walk a fine line between the socially acceptable and unacceptable if they are to survive. But at the same time the central character, Emma Woodhouse, is a marked departure. Auste
12、n is writing very close to the peak of her powers, and her amazing talent for observation, subtle irony, and flashing wit endow Emma with tremendous charm and interest. Of all Jane Austens heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. The cha
13、racters in the novel: Emma Woodhouse, the main character. She is 21 years old. On one hand, she was beautiful, kindhearted and clever, on the other hand, she was selfish, pamper and subjective. She sweared that she will not be married, her aim is to help others to find their lovers. But at the end o
14、f the novel, she realized that she had fallen in love with her good friend, Mr Knightley, who always stayed with her and helped her quietly. Mr George Knightley, 37 years old. He was a single gentleman who was serious but filled with reason. He was among the few people who can see and point out Emma
15、s shortcomings. Emma often cinsidered him as a standard to measure other men. And the most important was that he was in love with Emma continuously. Mr Frank Churchill, a young gentleman who attracted almost every person who knows him, people not only like him but also admired him. He likes singing
16、and dancing. Though he was born in a rich family, he also has a good temper. He and Emma were of equal position on the scale, the two families were of equal rank. But Mr Knightley did not like him because he thought he was too young and was not mature enough. Jane Fairfax, the niece of Miss Bates. Although she was an orphan, she was a polite woman filled with grace, besides this, she was a genius in music. Her talent in music
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