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Playing Games with Jane Austen: The Game Motif and the Reader in Emma
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Jane Austen's Emma is a novel rich in the game motif. Especially, word games, such as charades, anagrams, conundrums, riddles, play a crucial role in the text. By using the game motif, Austen invites the reader to participate in these games and thus stresses the reader's role in her novel. Four word games are played during the course of the novel. The first word game is Mr. Elton's charade on “courtship.” What is revealed through the first game episode is the fact that the author tests her readers' perception by making Emma's misinterpretation obvious through several hints. This charade is the first of a series of tests Austen prepares to challenge the reader's perceptive observation. The second game motif is the mystery of the piano, which, like Elton's charade, is a kind of riddle. It is a game of guessing who sent Jane Fairfax the piano as a gift of love. Emma repeats the same mistake of putting an arbitrary construction on the mystery of the piano. It is, indeed, not easy for the reader to guess the secret relationship between Frank and Jane in the piano episode, but prior to this episode Austen leaves ample clues to gradually guide the reader to this conclusion. The third word game is the alphabet game, where the “blunder” anagram plays the role of throwing into relief the Jane Fairfax-Frank Churchill mystery implied in the piano episode. The novel Emma is similar to modern detective fiction, in that its author scatters clues throughout the text for her readers to solve the mystery. In light of this marked similarity, one might reason that Austen extends her game motif beyond internal word games to include an intellectual give-and-take with the reader. Thus we may regard this novel as a kind of game, which calls for the reader's active participation and interpretation. The last word game of the novel is Mr. Weston's conundrum in the Box Hill episode. The irony of his associating Emma's name with “perfection” stands out clearly by coming immediately after her insulting remark to Miss Bates. Austen could well have used this conundrum to indirectly ask the reader the playful, rhetorical question: “Isn't the novel Emma a model of ‘perfection’ among my novels?”
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