What are some criticisms Jane Austen makes through irony and characterisation in Emma?

critcizes
wealthy snobbery. In , she uses the
character of Elizabeth Bennet to speak boldy to the
Lady Catherine. When Lady
Catherine begins questioning Elizabeth on the training she and her
sisters
may have had, Elizabeth is bold and states that she could not be expected to give
out
such information.

All of Lady Catherine's questions
are meddlesome. It is
none of her business about Elizabeth's upbringing. And
she...