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The analysis traces Austen’s authorial methods, highlighting hints of Emma’s feelings for Mr Knightley, the narrative strategies that delay explicit confession, and the role of irony when Emma misreads situations. 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It is the story of her \"self-discovery\" as she matures and comes to understand herself better, particularly because of the influence the character Mr Knightley has on her. Austen uses moments of self-discovery such as Emma realising that she is in love with Knightley, and realising how cruelly she has acted towards other characters.  \nThe realisation that she herself is in love with Knightley is arguably the most shocking realisation for Emma herself, although the comedy for the reader comes from the fact that we have suspected it all along. From the beginning of the novel, Austen hints to the underlying mutual affections between Emma and Knightley. Austen has Knightley subtly display his attraction to Emma, \"I confess I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers\", which to the reader could seem a direct confession of this affection. However, Austen immediately has him quash the hopes of the reader with \"But I am a partial old friend\". The reader is therefore delicately hinted to within the first few chapters of the novel, that there may be an eventual union between the two characters. Despite the third person narrator being sympathetic to Emma's point of view, through Austen's use of free indirect discourse, there is never any direct confession from Emma about her attraction to Knightley. We are told that\"general benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought. She could fancy such a man\" and that \"you might not find one in a hundred with gentlemen so plainly written as in Mr Knightley\", by Emma herself.  \nThe phrase about Mr Knightley comes at a much earlier stage in the novel, so that when the narrator admits Emma \"could fancy such a man\", meaning a benevolent man, as readers we are reminded of Emma's earlier appreciation of Knightley's gentlemanlike character. These hints given by Austen from the beginning of the novel, increase the sense of climax up to the moment where Emma realises, \"It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself.\" This is the first moment of realisation for Emma, and we see how forcefully it hits her with the imagery of \"an arrow\", similar to cupid's arrow. However, for the reader, it is no great surprise. Instead, we find comedy in the naivety Emma has shown up to this point, and take pleasure in the fact we could have foreseen it. The narration in this paragraph shows Emma's internal mental struggle with \"why was it so much worse that Harriet should be lone with Mr Knightley than with Frank Churchill?\". Even right up to the epiphany, Austen has Emma in a state of confusion, which creates comedy as we see how blind Emma is to her own feelings. A sense of relief and happiness is felt by the reader in this moment of self-discovery for Emma, and being the most important realisation throughout the novel, it is all the more comedic because of the importance of it.  \nWhilst this is an example of a clearly comedic \"moment of self-discovery\" as it is a purely happy realisation, there are other moments where comedy arises in a slightly more sinister way. The most prominent example of this is in the moment where Austen has Emma realise she was wrong to attempt to meddle in Harriet's romantic relationships, except that Emma then continues to repeat her mistake. It is the first of Emma's series of attempts to find a partner for Harriet, the first being Mr Elton.","cbCail22pMR3Mjgq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail22pMR3Mjgq","pdf",121402,"English","# Sample question\n## Explore the view on Emma’s comedy through self-discovery\n# Sample response\n## Emma’s moral education and key realizations\n## Early hints of mutual affection with Knightley\n## Epiphany, internal struggle, and readerly surprise\n## Meddling with Harriet: apparent self-blame and irony\n# Examiner commentary","[{\"question\":\"What does the response argue is the main source of comedy in Emma?\",\"answer\":\"It argues the comedy is most apparent in moments of Emma Woodhouse’s self-discovery, especially when the reader can foresee outcomes before Emma understands them.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Austen create comedic effect around Emma’s realization of her feelings for Knightley?\",\"answer\":\"Austen uses early narrative hints, free indirect discourse, and delayed direct confession so the reader suspects the attraction in advance, making Emma’s epiphany both intense and ironic.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the response treat Emma’s attempt to meddle in Harriet’s romance as a different kind of comedy?\",\"answer\":\"It acknowledges the action is potentially insensitive, yet comedy comes from Emma’s lightly framed language and the implied certainty that she will repeat the mistake, revealed on a second reading.\"}]","Aspects of comedy - Exemplar student response - AS Paper 2B, Section B | PDF",1792467913]