Emma, published in 1816, like other novels of Jane Austen, deals with one major subject, that is, young ladys attempts at finding proper husbands. Although superficially this seems to be the storyline of the novel, there is much more than only this at the deeper level. The novel is doubtlessly ranked as a classic romantic comedy, a piece of fiction full of irony and wit, a typical characteristic of Jane Austens Victorian pen. In the novel, the author very dexterously employs satire and romantic sensibilities that make the novel a masterpiece. The novel has a plot that is essentially character-driven. The twenty-one-year-old central character (Emma), in the self-assessment of herself as a skillful matchmaker, holds the center of interest in the novel. As her deceptive thinking about being a skillful matchmaker comes to unfold to be nothing but foiled ideas, her character moves toward dynamic development throughou
t the novel. In other female characters, also, we very well see the theme of marriage being the major plot runner. However, in the entire novel, this theme is given a light-hearted treatment. This embedded with comedy, dealing with domestic matters, irony, and satire makes the novel a well-rounded reading experience for the reader: With the upper-middle-class society as its limits, and encircling majorly the issues of women and looking at things from the feministic viewpoint the course of events of Emma are essentially presented within a social context or with domestic fervor. In this way, the author certainly makes use of humor, irony, morality, commonsense, and so on which all seem highly homely and benign to the reader. Emma is, as such, full of domestic underpinnings from a womans point of view: On the whole, Emma is a magnificent attempt at exploring the self-contained lives of young women (Dempsey, 2008).