THE IDEOLOGY IN JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA

This paper sheds light on the false consciousness which depends upon the hierarchical sense of class of the landed aristocracy in jane austen’s emma. in order to rationalise the ideas of class, hierarchy, rank and order as natural or given, upper class people employ ideology which depends upon the values of the polite society in order to hide their real intentions and to maintain the existing order. this paper’s concern is to elucidate the fundamental and basic codes which shape both the characters’s perception of social phenomena and their ideological plots to keep the current particular relations resting on money, status, rank in the light of volosinov’s discussion of ideology and language as one of the outstanding marxist critics.