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** The main character is a subversion in that she is in the position to behave like one, but is actually a really good person who uses her wealth and power reasonably. Moments when she does come across badly generally aren't a result of her upbringing or wealth, but rather her thoughtlessness and naivety. Some actresses play her as being much more snobby than she ever was in the book.
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** The main character is a subversion in that she is in the position to behave like one, but is actually a really good person who uses her wealth and power reasonably. Moments when she does come across badly generally aren't a result of her upbringing or wealth, but rather her thoughtlessness and naivety. She ''is'' very aware of her class relative to other people, but due to the social mores of the time, this is not portrayed as her being rude or mean, but simply as how the world is. Some actresses play her as being much more snobby than she ever was in the book.
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* KickTheDog: Mr. Elton is already infinitely more shallow than he's first perceived to be, but deliberately standing up the lower-class Harriet Smith is low--lower still when he begins all but rubbing it in her face. It makes Mr. Knightly taking Harriet for a dance and making a fool of Mr. Elton all the more satisfying.
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* LoveYouAndEverybody: Not romantically, but Mr Weston has so many "close friends" that being his "close friend" doesn't seem to mean much, as Emma realises with some annoyance.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Mr Elton is a GoldDigger, an egotist and everything bad -- ''but'' he's right, Emma did lead him on. Unintentionally, to be sure, but her willful blindness just makes it worse.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Mr Elton is a GoldDigger, an egotist and everything bad -- ''but'' he's right, Emma did lead him on. Unintentionally, to be sure, but her willful blindness just makes it worse. If she'd been paying attention, she would have realized that to everyone ''not'' working from the first principle of "Mr. Elton and Harriet should totally get hitched!" (ie, everyone who isn't Emma Woodhouse), inviting him over all the time and paying him extra attention doesn't look like trying to matchmake, it looks like flirting.
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* ObliviousToLove: [[spoiler:Emma is oblivious to Mr Knightley's feelings for her, and her own feelings for him, until (she believes) it might be too late.]]
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* ObliviousToLove: ObliviousToLove:
** Emma is so laser-focused on matchmaking Harriet and Mr. Elton that she misinterprets every sign of his attraction to ''her'' as being about Harriet. (Mr. Elton repeatedly and effusively compliments Emma's drawing of Harriet? Must be that he thinks Harriet is really pretty! Mr. Elton calls Harriet witty when she's obviously not? Well, people in love always attribute extra virtues to their crushes!)
** [[spoiler:Emma is oblivious to Mr Knightley's feelings for her, and her own feelings for him, until (she believes) it might be too late.]]
** Emma is so laser-focused on matchmaking Harriet and Mr. Elton that she misinterprets every sign of his attraction to ''her'' as being about Harriet. (Mr. Elton repeatedly and effusively compliments Emma's drawing of Harriet? Must be that he thinks Harriet is really pretty! Mr. Elton calls Harriet witty when she's obviously not? Well, people in love always attribute extra virtues to their crushes!)
** [[spoiler:Emma is oblivious to Mr Knightley's feelings for her, and her own feelings for him, until (she believes) it might be too late.]]
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[[Characters/{{Emma}} Emma Woodhouse]], who has been spoiled ever since she was a small child, had always had a penchant for ordering the world as she sees fit. So when she meets the [[GoodIsDumb sweet and pretty but slightly slow]] young Harriet, she decides that she will set her up with a husband worthy of her feminine charms. HilarityEnsues, with {{zany scheme}}s, terrible misunderstandings, gossip gone awry and, of course, since this is a Jane Austen novel, Emma needs to sort out her love life before it's too late.
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[[Characters/{{Emma}} Emma Woodhouse]], who has been spoiled ever since she was a small child, had always had a penchant for ordering the world as she sees fit. So when she meets the [[GoodIsDumb sweet and pretty but slightly slow]] young Harriet, she decides that she will set her up with a husband worthy of her feminine charms. HilarityEnsues, with What follows are {{zany scheme}}s, terrible misunderstandings, gossip gone awry and, of course, since this is a Jane Austen novel, Emma needs to sort out her love life before it's too late.
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* DelicateAndSickly: Jane Fairfax's health is not robust, but she's still considered a great beauty. Jane Austen told her family [[spoiler:that she died of either tuberculosis or childbirth a few years after the end of the book.]]
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* IllGirl: Jane Fairfax's health is not robust, but she's still considered a great beauty. Jane Austen told her family [[spoiler:that she died of either tuberculosis or childbirth a few years after the end of the book.]]
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** Mrs Elton, on the other hand, plays it straight and ratchets the trope right UpToEleven. She constantly boasts about her gowns, house, carriage, wealthy relatives, and so on. And she snubs people who are of the same, if not higher, position in the society, but to whom she fancies herself superior. For example, she remarks to Emma how surprised she was to find Mrs Weston ladylike -- Mrs Weston, who is married to one of the most respectable men in Highbury and who was Miss Woodhouse's governess and is her close friend.
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** Mrs Elton, on the other hand, plays it straight and ratchets the trope right UpToEleven.up to eleven. She constantly boasts about her gowns, house, carriage, wealthy relatives, and so on. And she snubs people who are of the same, if not higher, position in the society, but to whom she fancies herself superior. For example, she remarks to Emma how surprised she was to find Mrs Weston ladylike -- Mrs Weston, who is married to one of the most respectable men in Highbury and who was Miss Woodhouse's governess and is her close friend.
