The novel offers critical illustrations of the ways in which personal biases or desires blind objective judgment. Emma’s biases cause her to invent an attachment between Harriet and Frank thus blinding her of jane's attachment to Knightley. At the same time, Frank’s desire to use Emma as a screen for his real preference causes him to believe that she is aware of his and Jane's relation. The ironic detachment of the narrator allows us to see many of these misunderstandings before the characters do. And the plot is powered by realizations that permit characters to make more objective judgments.
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The novel centres on Emma Woodhouse, a precocious young woman whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities occasions several romantic misadventures.
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