"It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!"
— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Murray
Date
1816
Metaphor
"It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!"
Metaphor in Context
Emma's eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes. A few minutes were sufficient for making her acquainted with her own heart. A mind like her's, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress. She touched--she admitted--she acknowledged the whole truth. Why was it so much worse that Harriet should be in love with Mr Knightley, that with Frank Churchill? Why was the evil so dreadfully increased by Harriet's having some hope of return? It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr Knightley must marry no one but herself!
(III.xi, p. 263)
(III.xi, p. 263)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Joe Bray's The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (2003), p. 22.
Citation
Jane Austen, Emma, ed. Stephen Parrish (New York: Norton, 1993). <Link to volume one in Google Books>
Theme
Free indirect discourse
Date of Entry
03/25/2005
Date of Review
06/09/2011
