Emma Part 5
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Does Emma ignore Mr. Knightley’s warnings about Mr. Elton’s intentions?
Welcome to Jane Austen Stories. I'm Julie Andrews, and from the Noiser Podcast Network, this is Emma, Part 5. In the last episode, Emma insisted she wouldn't dream of influencing Harriet's response to Mr. Martin's proposal. But as she comes to understand that accepting marriage into what Emma calls his illiterate and vulgar society would mean an end to her connections with Hartfield, Harriet rejects the offer. Emma tries to brighten her spirits by reminding her of Mr Elton's apparent affections, especially his enthusiasm for her portrait. But when Mr Knightley discovers Emma's hand in the rejection of his friend Mr Martin, he has no qualms in criticizing her judgment of the situation or in sharing his own concerns about Mr Elton.
Though we return now to Highbury to find the rift between Mr. Knightley and Emma unresolved, our heroine is nonetheless quite certain that she is in the right. But when Mr. Elton next visits Hartfield, will Emma consider Mr. Knightley's warnings or continue her scheming regardless? Now, if you are sitting comfortably, then I'll begin. From the Noiser Podcast Network, this is Emma, Part 5.
Chapter 9 Mr. Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with herself. He was so much displeased that it was longer than usual before he came to Harkfield again, and when they did meet, his grave looks showed that she was not forgiven. She was sorry, but could not repent. On the contrary, her plans and proceedings were more and more justified, and endeared to her by the general appearances of the next few days. The picture, elegantly framed, came safely to hand soon after Mr. Elton's return, and being hung over the mantelpiece of the common sitting-room, he got up to look at it and sighed out his half-sentences of admiration just as he ought, and as for Harriet's feelings, they were visibly forming themselves into as strong and steady an attachment as her youth,
and sort of mind admitted. Emma was soon perfectly satisfied of Mr. Martin's being no otherwise remembered than as he furnished a contrast with Mr. Elton of the utmost advantage to the latter. Her views of improving her young friend's mind by a great deal of useful reading and conversation had never yet led to more than a few first chapters and the intention of going on tomorrow. It was much easier to chat than to study. Much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune than to be laboring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts, and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper made up by her friend and ornamented with ciphers and trophies."
In this age of literature, such collections on a very grand scale are not uncommon. Miss Nash, head teacher at Mrs. Goddard's, had written out at least 300, and Harriet, who had taken the first hint of it from her, hoped with Miss Woodhouse's help to get a great many more. Emma assisted with her invention, memory, and taste, and as Harriet wrote a very pretty hand, it was likely to be an arrangement of the first order, in form as well as quantity. Mr. Woodhouse was almost as much interested in the business as the girls, and tried very often to recollect something worth their putting in. So many clever riddles as they used to be when he was young, he wondered he could not remember them. But he hoped he should in time, and it always ended in Kitty, a fair but frozen maid.
His good friend Perry, too, whom he had spoken to on the subject, did not at present recollect anything of the riddle kind, but he had desired Perry to be upon the watch, and as he went about so much, something, he thought, might come from that quarter. It was by no means his daughter's wish that the intellects of Highbury in general should be put under requisition. Mr. Elton was the only one whose assistance she asked.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Does Emma ignore Mr. Knightley’s warnings about Mr. Elton’s intentions?
0:00–10:59
2
What is the significance of the charade Mr. Elton gives to Harriet?
10:59–15:57
3
How does Emma react when Mr. Elton’s charade reveals a possible proposal?
15:57–23:42
4
Why does Emma claim she will never marry, and how does Harriet respond?
23:42–31:25
5
What arguments does Emma use to justify remaining single and independent?
31:25–38:09
6
How does Emma’s visit to the Vicarage illustrate her compassion for the poor?
38:09–48:15
7
What tension arises when Mr. Elton follows Emma and Harriet to the Vicarage?
48:15–57:44
8
How does Emma’s scheme to separate herself from Mr. Elton backfire at the Vicarage?
57:44–1:05:46