Emma Woodhouse MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Emma Woodhouse? Emma Woodhouse is an ENFJ personality type in MBTI, 2w3 - so/sp - 271 in Enneagram, SCOAI in Big 5, EIE in Socionics.
- "Emma listened with the warmest concern; grieved for her more and more, and looked around eager to discover some way of being useful." - Social 2, being ambitious and wanting influence. She's generous and caring, although she also is quite condescending and looks upon others as being "lower" than herself and needing help. This seems very 2-ish, in how they tend to see others as being helpless, so that they can help them. With a savior complex, she meddles into other's business, under the excuse that she wants to help or be "useful" to others. - For example, she successfully match-makes, and wants to continue doing so. Her pride as a 2, makes her think she knows what’s best for everyone. She takes Harriet under her wing, trying to improve her and help her. But she ends up messing with her relations with others in a negative way, which she feels guilty about in the end. - Her relationship with Jane also is noteable for her character. Emma has a distaste for Jane, which Mr. Knightley claims is because Emma is envious that Jane gets the recognition that Emma wants. When Jane arrives, Miss Bates and others fawn over her, which Emma might be jealous of. Emma also describes Jane as "cold," "cautious," and "disgustingly, suspiciously reserved." As Emma is Fe-dom, she wants to invoke and influence the external emotions. But Jane, as Fi-dom and Fe-ignoring, is emotionally reserved and is not receptive to Emma's Fe, and this frustrates Emma. Her lack of emotional warmth making Emma believe that Jane has bad intentions. - Thus, Emma would treat Jane with displeasure, even gossiping about a make-believe affair between Jane and Mr. Dixon. Not only is there a difference between Fe/Fi. But Jane also seems resistant to Emma's influence, unlike Harriet, which may also hurt Emma's ego as a e2. Just like with Robert Martin, Emma has little fondness for those she cannot be useful to, which is why she loves Harriet so much. And later, when Emma feels bad and wants to genuinely help Jane, we can see Jane keep her relational distance (Fi), as she distrusts Emma. - "Jane was resolved to receive no kindness from her. [Emma] was sorry, very sorry. Her heart was grieved for a state which seemed but the more pitiable from this sort of irritation of spirits, inconsistency of action, and inequality of powers; and it mortified her that she was given so little credit for proper feeling, or esteemed so little worthy as a friend." - This seems to affect Emma much, as her image as the caring and helpful "friend" to others is ruined. And while Ms. Bates (ESE) and Harriet (SEI) bow down to her even after being done wrong. Jane is the one who refuses her help or to give emotional reassurance, instead putting an aloof distance, which is a wake-up call to Emma. - Also Mr. Knightley (LSI) constantly shames her for her bad actions, and this is effective on her - because she is Fe-dom, and gets moved by the emotional pressure or impressions from others. And Emma gets disappointed in herself for her own "inconsistency" and "inequality" towards others (Ti). Knightley is the only one who challenges her and shakes her a "firm" dose of reality (Se), which she is easily influenced by his forceful and categorical assertions of what is right.
Biography
Miss Emma Woodhouse is the heroine of the story. She's twenty and a lady of the landed gentry who is 'handsome, clever and rich'. She's very independent and empowered. She's the mistress of her house Hartfield and she's the woman of most consequence in Highbury despite not being married..
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