At times when women used to be fragile flowers and young girls often fainted, Jane Austen created in her Emma heroine from another Kadlub. When she loses his mother in an early youth and the father, the weak hypochondra, he cannot be relied on, he will take the administration of things on his native estate herself, and the demands that a difficult situation puts on her is growing in a bright girl's qualities of a sovereign general. Only she understands everything, only she knows what is good for everyone. In this way, however, she walks from trouble to trouble and often cooks nicely even those she honestly wanted to help. But because she misses a good heart, she will wise over time and understand where to look for the real values ​​in life. The novel (in his film processing was played by Emma's favorite Gwyneth Paltrow) has recently been experiencing a new wave of reading interest. Is it because today's women in his heroine recognize their predecessor for their efforts to social recognize their abilities - and the pitfalls of which they should avoid? Or is it simply that the virtues and refinement of the past to us in a wonderful author like Jane Austen, even today speak very clearly?