Emma Stands A Little Apart From Jane Austen's Other Novels. It Is Perhaps The Most Self-aware, Socially Critical And Ironic Of All Her Works. Her Protagonist, Emma Woodhouse, Is A Beautiful, Rich Girl Who Is Also Spoiled, Proud And Blinded By Her Own Situation In Life. She Begins To Understand Herself And Life A Little Better When Her Romantic Schemes - Charitable Good Works To Those Around Her - Become Entangled In Tensions Of Class And Of The Heart.