#Mr. Elton

[bethanydelleman]

When it comes to Mr. Elton thinking that Emma likes him, I always get the idea that for him if a woman smiles politely he takes it as flirtation. Emma thinks to herself at the Weston's Christmas dinner, "For her own sake she could not be rude; and for Harriet’s, in the hope that all would yet turn out right, she was even positively civil; but it was an effort; especially as something was going on amongst the others". Emma is trying to listen to Mr. Weston, she's trying to catch words from another conversation.

I have witnessed this scene. I've seen the girl standing at a party with a guy she does not like but she's being nice. Her eyes would be wandering, her body does an unconscious quarter turn towards where she wants to go. She answers politely but without encouraging conversation. But he just misses all the clues from her body language. He's so caught up in his own ego he can't tell that she doesn't like him.

After this encounter, he has the courage to propose. Mr. Elton is blinded by his own arrogance.

[accidental-spice]

@monthly-challenge 2024 | Day #7: Pink

[amymbona]

Amy, i don't have a request for you (only if something related to mr. elton from emma, he's a little tricky, but josh is josh).

But just want to say that you're excellent. I like ur fanfiction, don't underestimate yourself! And also tysm for Arthur character.ai bot, didn't think I'd find at least one.. :)

Awwwww you're soooo kind :3333 I'm so glad you enjoy my writings and the bots as well! Sending you a hug and a kiss <3334

I loved loved loved Emma! It's such a wonderful and gentle movie that left me crying at its beauty, I wish I could watch it for the first time again. Josh as Mr Elton was so adorable at first and then he turned into a total menace but I loved every second of him. It would definitely be interesting to write something about him too😋😋😋😋 (priest Patrick Zweig has already been on my mind for a while so we could apply that Mr Elton, perhaps).

[blake-ritson-love]

Blake Ritson as Mr. Elton & Christina Cole as Mrs. Elton in Emma (2009)

[theheartofnowhere]

[addingofchocolatetomilk]

[start-with-words]

INIMITABLE (ADJ.) - so good or unusual as to be impossible to copy; unique.

[…] Is not this room rich in specimens of your landscapes and flowers? and has not Mrs. Weston some inimitable figure-pieces in her drawing-room at Randalls?

- Emma by Jane Austen, Vol. I, Ch. 06.

[charlottebartlett]

Hello, Mr. Elton... err... Blake Ritson.

[firawren]

Emma. 2020 text posts

More: Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts

[diana-daphne]

Best book ever written, nothing will ever be funnier than this, Jane Austen I love you more than anyone else in the world <3

[mollywog]

Something I find funny about Jane Austen is: she doesn’t f*ck around with dialogue she doesn’t want to write (AKA: end-game main character proposals/acceptances)

Emma/Mr. Knightly

She spoke then, on being so entreated.—What did she say?—Just what she ought, of course.

Lizzie/Mr. Darcy

Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.

Elinor/Edward

How soon he had walked himself into the proper resolution, however, how soon an opportunity of exercising it occurred, in what manner he expressed himself, and how he was received, need not be particularly told. This only need be said;—that when they all sat down to table at four o'clock, about three hours after his arrival, he had secured his lady, engaged her mother's consent, and was not only in the rapturous profession of the lover, but, in the reality of reason and truth, one of the happiest of men.

Anne/Captain Wentworth

Charles was at the bottom of Union Street again, and the other two proceeding together: and soon words enough had passed between them to decide their direction towards the comparatively quiet and retired gravel walk, where the power of conversation would make the present hour a blessing indeed, and prepare it for all the immortality which the happiest recollections of their own future lives could bestow. There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many, many years of division and estrangement. There they returned again into the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a knowledge of each other’s character, truth, and attachment;

Catherine/Henry

Some explanation on his father's account he had to give; but his first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often. She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own;

Fanny/Edward Edmund

I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that every one may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people. I only entreat everybody to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier, Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and became as anxious to marry Fanny as Fanny herself could desire.

[bethanydelleman]

I noticed an interesting parallel between Mr. Elton and Harriet Smith while reading Emma, they use nearly the same language about a "lesser" person they were expected to love:

Mr. Elton: "But, Miss Smith, indeed!—Oh! Miss Woodhouse! who can think of Miss Smith, when Miss Woodhouse is near!"

Harriet: "Mr. Frank Churchill, indeed! I do not know who would ever look at him in the company of the other (Mr. Knightley)."

I think this is meant to show how much Emma has perverted Harriet's modest and reasonable expectations, Harriet has become as presumptuous as Mr. Elton when he dared think that Emma Woodhouse would sink herself to her level.

[besotted-with-austen]

Philip Elton: me, with Miss Smith? Miss Harriet Smith? Why should I lower my standards-

Emma Woodhouse: *outraged* Mr Elton!

Philip Elton: I am just saying the quiet part out loud! Why should I do that when I could obtain someone like Miss Woodhouse?

Emma Woodhouse: *coolly* and why should I, Miss Emma Woodhouse, lower my standards for you?

Philip Elton: *incredulously* are you putting me and Miss Smith on the same level?

Emma Woodhouse: I would never dream of doing such a thing-you are barely good enough for her and you think you are good enough for me?

[amymbona]

He may be a bitch but he's very much a cutie pie too

[didanagy]

EMMA (2020)

dir. autumn de wilde

[mrsroryhuntzberger]

Mr. Elton: I will die if you refuse me

Emma: