Roles of Emily (Emily of Emrald Hill)

Hi readers, thanks for watching this post and wasting five minutes of your life.

Just joking! Today I will be talking about the differents roles of Emily in the play Emily of Emerald Hill as mentioned in the previous post. Emily can be seen taking on many roles in the play, matriarch, wife, boss, etc. I will be talking and elaborating about each of them.

For starters, one of the main roles of Emily is a wife. She was seen being a caring wife and controlling wife in the play. She cooks sometimes and care about his husband, Kheong. She make decisions for Kheong like when she persuaded Kheong to join the Legislative Council and be a councilor.

Emily was also the matriarch of the family. She domineered the house and controlled every activity of the house. She make decisions for every member of the house. She was also a boss for the maids, gardeners and chauffeurs in the house. She was quite a strict boss and have high standards for the employees. This can be shown when she fired Ah Sim because she made a few mistakes.

Emily was also a friend to Bee Choo. She was seen as a caring and understanding friend. One example of that is that she kick Mr Fang out of her spare house so that Bee Choo could live in . She is also understanding in the sense that she knew Bee Choo will not accept charity and put up a "nominal fee". Furthermore, Emily was also a mother in the play. However, she uses her domineering attitude and make every decision for her kids. They eventually grew tired of her controlling and tried to get away from her and make their own decision. This eventually lead to Richard's death and Doris's moving away.

Other irrelevant roles such as mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was also played by Emily. From this we can show that Emily was not a easy person to play as she needs to take care of so much with only two hands. However, Emily did not use her power properly and eventually learn her lesson the hard way. THANK YOU.