Department of world literature nuriddinova zukhra reflection of human relations is society in j. Austen

II-CHAPTER. REFLECTING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN J.AUSTEN’S NOVELS AND REVEALING EXAMPLES OF THEM
Emma is a novel written by Jane Austen, which is based on real- life
situations of the eighteenth century England. Austen depicts her novels to show clearly the customs and traditions that people had to use in order to get married; her dissatisfaction towards all these conditions; male dominance and also the consideration of women as weak human beings with limited rights.
Based on all these issues, Austen chooses different kinds of marriages, mainly based on economical interest. Most of the people in her novels see the marriage as an obligation which had to be fulfilled; most of the girls got
involved into a marriage market where parents decided what was good or bad for them. This paper describes the conditions of unmarried and married women Emma; the ways how the unmarried women chose the partners; the ways how Austen compared the conditions of women with the real life situations of the eighteenth century Britain; how she used irony to show her dissatisfaction towards the traditions of that time, and also the real message she conveys to the world.Emma is a novel which tells the story of Emma, a “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home” (Austen, 2014). Being a child of a family with good economical conditions, Emma was not a girl who had to find a husband as the only escape from poverty. As most of others novels, in Emma Austen focuses and explores the lives of women during the period of the eighteenth century especially marriage, which was the main issue of women during that period. In the novel, Austen involves different characters, including characters that belonged to upper classes and lower classes and their struggle to achieve where they wanted. The story flowed in a way that Emma
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understood her mistakes and changed her opinion about marriage by marrying Mr. Knightley. On the other hand, other couples were involved in difficult
situations, struggled to find the appropriate partner and achieve to marry either for love, affection or money. Since the main aim of this paper was to analyze
the situations and the relationships of the unmarried characters who ended up married by the end of the novel and also the relationships of the already
married couples of the novel, the main analysis was based on Emma Woodhouse and her relationship with Mr. George Knightley, Jane Fairfax and her relationship with Frank Churchill, Harriet Smith and her relationship with
Robert Martin, Augusta Hawkins and her relationship with Philip Elton, and also the relationships of the already married couples, Anne Taylor Weston and Mr. Weston, and the relationship of Isabella Woodhouse and John Knightley.