Jane Austen, Emma, and Emmeline Vance, Other Austen parallels? |
 Dec 8 2005, 12:26 PM
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Trying to Resell a Used Comet Two-Sixty  Posts: 2,574 Joined: 6:16pm October 4, 2005 Location: Reading the Lexicon    |
"I love a good whodunnit and my passion is plot construction. Readers loved to be tricked, but not conned," Rowling says, warming to her theme. "The best twist ever in literature is in Jane Austen's Emma. To me she is the target of perfection at which we shoot in vain."
I bring this quote here to ask a silly question. If Emma is her favorite book, and she loves plot twists, could Emmeline Vance's murder give us a clue about something? I decided this was a more literary question, rather than speculation about Emmeline Vance's actual present condition. I feel there may be something to Emmeline-little Emma. I probably wouldn't question it if Snape had not claimed some part of it and we have no way of knowing whether he did or not. Other things he speaks of at Spinner's End, we can argue his meaning but this seems to have stumped many people. Would JKR use Emma's namesake as a way of indicating a plot twist? I'm not at all suggesting there was anything Emma-like about the character. I just feel like it's a marker, a clue, an indication of something. I also thought, if anyone wanted to weigh in on other Austen characters and their similarities, or differences, this might be a good place to put it. -------------------- “Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.” -Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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