2. Literature Review

2.1The Background of the Study

Most of the former scholars have a little study on the rhetoric techniques in Emma, but a great many research on Jane Austen, especially on her insight of love and marriage life. Scholars tend to focus on her another novel, Pride and Prejudice. After two hundred years, Emma became a more mature work, and gradually achieved the academic recognition and affirmation. Emma may not be the most popular novel in her works, however, it’s definitely one of the most mature, the most structure-completely. In this novel, the author has a more profound understanding of reality, thinking about life, and the rhetoric techniques employed by author are more adept and infectious. The outstanding novel, Emma completely displays the author’s talent of shaping the heroine’s characters, exploring the literature. Compared with other works of Jane Austen, more and more scholars found that Emma can further show author’s personality.