Emma !!top!!: Double View Casting

Critics may argue DVC fractures the audience’s empathy. However, Austen herself fractures Emma—she is at once the deluded protagonist and the object of satire. DVC merely makes this structural duality literal. Others may claim it is gimmicky; yet in practice, DVC mirrors cognitive dissonance, a state Emma occupies for nearly four hundred pages. When well-rehearsed, the two actors move as one consciousness in dispute with itself.