...for educating me! I had to google Chekhov's gun, but I like that principle. It's something you know instinctively as a reader, but he verbalized it so succinctly and memorably. Makes me think I should read some of his works :).
So...yeah, they went there. In the lead-up to Boxx Hill, I kept thinking there had to be more to Emma's insult than Maddy's jams. I mean, even the harshest conceivable insult to her jams is an order of magnitude less hurtful than "you're so boring that you can't possibly say *only* three boring things." Yes, Maddy lost a potential business opportunity in the process, but if the faces everyone makes when they sample her jams are any indication, that probably wasn't going to go far anyway. I'm starting to come around, though, because I like that Emma's downfall isn't focused on a single impulsive, harsh statement she made.
There seems to be a pattern emerging in the way Pemberley Digital portrays the heroine's...enlightenment, for lack of a better term.
-In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth has essentially one major wake-up call, as a result of Darcy's letter. In the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Lizzie goes through at least three experiences that make her examine herself and shape her into the woman we see her becoming: the fight with Charlotte, which was given more weight than in the book and which forced her to recognize that people could make choices she disagreed with and be wise in doing so, Darcy's letter, and finally her realization of how she'd dismissed and neglected Lydia.
-In Emma (the book), most of Emma's self-examination and maturation, such as it is, occurs as she contemplates "Badly done, Emma" and her treatment of Miss Bates. In Emma Approved, she is being confronted simultaneously with having broken her promise to Annie for the sake of business (weak, to my mind, but very real for her), Jane's assertion that she only "talks the talk" about making the world better (something they've been foreshadowing for a while now), *and* her insult of Maddy and Alex's departure.
Has anyone else noticed this, or am I over-simplifying things?
So...yeah, they went there. In the lead-up to Boxx Hill, I kept thinking there had to be more to Emma's insult than Maddy's jams. I mean, even the harshest conceivable insult to her jams is an order of magnitude less hurtful than "you're so boring that you can't possibly say *only* three boring things." Yes, Maddy lost a potential business opportunity in the process, but if the faces everyone makes when they sample her jams are any indication, that probably wasn't going to go far anyway. I'm starting to come around, though, because I like that Emma's downfall isn't focused on a single impulsive, harsh statement she made.
There seems to be a pattern emerging in the way Pemberley Digital portrays the heroine's...enlightenment, for lack of a better term.
-In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth has essentially one major wake-up call, as a result of Darcy's letter. In the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Lizzie goes through at least three experiences that make her examine herself and shape her into the woman we see her becoming: the fight with Charlotte, which was given more weight than in the book and which forced her to recognize that people could make choices she disagreed with and be wise in doing so, Darcy's letter, and finally her realization of how she'd dismissed and neglected Lydia.
-In Emma (the book), most of Emma's self-examination and maturation, such as it is, occurs as she contemplates "Badly done, Emma" and her treatment of Miss Bates. In Emma Approved, she is being confronted simultaneously with having broken her promise to Annie for the sake of business (weak, to my mind, but very real for her), Jane's assertion that she only "talks the talk" about making the world better (something they've been foreshadowing for a while now), *and* her insult of Maddy and Alex's departure.
Has anyone else noticed this, or am I over-simplifying things?