The movie was focused on how women lived their lives and how they were presumed to live it. There were many contracting characters in this movie. Frank Churchill, Miss Bates, Mr.& Mrs. Cole, Mr. Fairfax, Isabella, Emma Woodhouse, Mr. Woodhouse, Miss Smith, Mr. Martin, Mr. Nightly and Mr. Elton.The main character was Emma; she was a house lady, looked upon as a perfect lady, maybe too perfect for any man to even think of being with her. She lived on her family estate with her father ...view middle of the document...
She received every guest with a smile and had to be very polite to everyone even if she didn't like him or her. This was the way her father brought her up to believe.Mr. Nightly thinks a lot less of women, he doesn't believe that a woman should be given any privileges at all in society other than host social gatherings and oversee the keeping of the house. Mr. Nightly also believes in a social class system of the poor for the poor and the rich for the rich.When Isabella comes to town, she is well educated and thinks less of all the women for the reason that their only motive was to find a good man to marry and make him happy. When Emma wanted top know about Frank Churchill she refuses to tell her much about him and Emma is disappointed.Miss Baits talks a lot and this makes everyone dislike her, she is also poor and without a man. This meant that no man wanted a woman who had more to say than he did, and so she couldn't find a man to fit her. She filled her days by attending social gatherings.Emma is a classic example of the role a woman was required to play in the society of her era. She had many ideas of what she might become and thought she had no use for a husband but in the end realized that a husband was largely defining of a woman in that time period. And socially she was not as highly regarded if she had no husband.
