Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, wealthy and intelligent woman who is vain and self-centered; she is not interested in romantic love and therefore believes that she should not marry, although the customs of the society of the time see marriage as a woman's only reason for living. Nevertheless, Emma takes great pleasure in trying to arrange marriages between friends and acquaintances, until a series of misunderstandings, caused by the protagonist's blindness to her own feelings and those of others, leads her to a series of misunderstandings. Jane Austen, writing the novel, said, “I am working on a heroine that no one will like but me,” since Emma, so unbalanced, snobbish and spoiled, is completely different from the other female characters in her works. Still, the character will be able to generate empathy in the reader, and in the end, Emma will be forced to come to grips with reality, in what is an amusing and merciless satire not only of the mores of 19th-century society, but also of human vanity and selfishness.
