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** The book's portrayal of "gypsies" is very wince-inducing now. Not only is that term used freely (which is now considered a slur; the more correct term is "Roma" or "Romani"), but they only randomly show up once as a threat from which Frank has to save Harriet, and are portrayed as a faceless AlwaysChaoticEvil group who need to be driven out of the neighborhood for everyone's safety.
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** The book's portrayal of "gypsies" is very wince-inducing now. Not only is that term used freely (which is now considered a slur; the more correct term is "Roma" or "Romani"), but they only randomly show up once as a threat from which Frank has to save Harriet, and are portrayed as a faceless AlwaysChaoticEvil group who need to be driven out of the neighborhood for everyone's safety. The 2009 and 2020 adaptions change it: the 2009 adaption shows Harriet overreacting to some rowdy Roma children while the 2020 adaptation only shows the aftermath.
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* TheWoobie: Miss Bates is pretty annoying for most of the book, but you want to give her a big hug after Emma insults her.
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* TheWoobie: Miss Bates is pretty annoying for most of the book, but you want to give her a big hug after Emma insults her.
her. Especially in the 2020 adaptation, where’s she’s clearly holding back tears.
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** Similarly, Emma is offended at Mr. Elton's proposal to her not just because he's a rude gold-digger who just wants her money and connections (er, connexions), and not just because he thinks he's smart and cool enough for her when he isn't, but because of the presumption of someone of his class proposing to someone of hers. Specifically, she's offended he doesn't even seem ''aware'' he's reaching above his station by asking for her hand, which would imply he considers her on his level when she very much is not.
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** Augusta Elton's behavior is obnoxious to modern readers in some ways (continually referencing her rich brother-in-law, being super condescending) that are very familiar, but not in others. We know it's overfamiliar of her to call Mr. Knightley just "Knightley" because Emma fumes about it, and similarly she leaps straight to calling Jane Fairfax just "Jane" (you may note that even after her engagement to Frank is revealed, ''Frank'' still calls her "Miss Fairfax" most of the time), but today people usually just call each other by their first names once they've been introduced, making this a more old-fashioned kind of rudeness.
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** The book's portrayal of "gypsies" is very wince-inducing now. Not only is that term used freely (which is now considered a slur; the "correct" term is "roma" or "romani"), but they only randomly show up once as a threat from which Frank has to save Harriet, and are portrayed as a faceless AlwaysChaoticEvil group.
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** The book's portrayal of "gypsies" is very wince-inducing now. Not only is that term used freely (which is now considered a slur; the "correct" more correct term is "roma" "Roma" or "romani"), "Romani"), but they only randomly show up once as a threat from which Frank has to save Harriet, and are portrayed as a faceless AlwaysChaoticEvil group.group who need to be driven out of the neighborhood for everyone's safety.
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** The modern reader gets an insight into the way English society of this time stereotyped their historical rivals, the French, when Mr. Knightley uses "being French" as a synonym for double-talk and meaningless conversational frippery.
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** Some readers think Emma's insistence on ignoring Harriet's rank is remarkably forward-thinking for a person living in the absurdly class-conscious environment of Regency England, but this still misses the main point of what Emma is doing. Emma insists that Harriet has a right to find a worthy husband and "low birth" should not deprive her of opportunity, but this is because she is making the unfounded assumption that Harriet's father is of high enough social rank that Harriet's illegitimacy can be ''overlooked.'' Mr. Knightley's objection is not to Harriet's low social station, but to Emma encouraging false hope in a girl who isn't bright enough to see sense and derailing a perfectly reasonable match with a respectable yeoman farmer.
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** Some readers think Emma's insistence on ignoring Harriet's rank is remarkably forward-thinking for a person living in the absurdly class-conscious environment of Regency England, but this still misses the main point of what Emma is doing. Emma insists that Harriet has a right to find a worthy husband and "low birth" should not deprive her of opportunity, but this is because she is making the unfounded assumption that Harriet's father is of high enough social rank that Harriet's illegitimacy can be ''overlooked.'' Once Harriet's parentage (a successful merchant) is revealed, Emma herself thinks that even Mr. Elton wouldn't deserve such a connection. Mr. Knightley's objection is not to Harriet's low social station, but to Emma encouraging false hope in a girl who isn't bright enough to see sense and derailing a perfectly reasonable match with a respectable yeoman farmer.
