Mr. Knightley and Emma are opposites for most of the book in many ways. Emma is fake happy and thinks she does nothing wrong. “The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way‚ and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.” (Austen 2). Emma thinks she can be truly happy by doing whatever she pleases. She also has no awareness of where social bounds are and often crosses
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Amy Heckerling transforms the many values and issues conveyed in Jane Austen’s Emma‚ set in the 18th century in Highbury to her teen pic film Clueless set in the 20th century‚ in a high school society. Both texts involve a protagonist‚ being Emma in Emma and Cher in Clueless who meddle with the relationships of others as their interest‚ while being “placed in the midst of those who loved her‚ and who had better sense than herself”. The protagonists are morally transformed towards the end of the film
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Introduction : Jane Austen’s Emma‚ published in 1815‚ presents an in-depth look on how society in England dealt with the differences between classes‚ precisely on how the members of the upper class interacted both with each others and with those lower than them. Emma is a departure for Jane Austen to take a side as a moralist and observe the common behavior of people in particular the cynism of social classes. The author herself spent her first 26 years in a small village like Highbury
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Mansfield Park (1814)‚ Emma (1815). Two novels‚ Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously in 1817. These novels are prominent for her satiric depiction of English society and manners. Summary of Emma Jane Austen’s Emma is a novel of courtship. Like all of Austen’s novels‚ it centres on the marriage plot: who will marry whom? For what reasons will they marry? Love‚ practicality‚ or necessity? At the centre of the story is the title character‚ Emma Woodhouse‚ an heiress who
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Clueless sustains interest in the values represented in Jane Austen’s Emma by the modernization of the initial text through the medium of novel to film. Additionally‚ Heckerling transforms the ideas of marriage‚ social class and gender roles from Austen’s early Nineteenth century context‚ to a late twentieth century context through an examination of relationships‚ high school cliques and the changing notion of gender roles. Emma embodies the value of social class by the determination of individuals
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Composition 2 Individual Work week 3 13 Literary Analysis of Emma Jane Austen’s Emma Deborah Simones Emma was an independent woman who stood her ground as she tried to stand tall in the upper class society that she belonged to. She made it a point to help those that she felt needed help when it came to love and marriage. She thought that she was very accomplished at being a matchmaker. She never intended to cause harm or illusion just pleasure and self-fulfillment. Austen portrayed
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CLUELESS VS. EMMA Adaptations of Jane Austen’s‚ Emma‚ are usually period pieces diligent in capturing and replicating the manners‚ dress‚ language and values of the original text. Clueless‚ written and directed by Amy Heckerling‚ deviates drastically from the norm‚ as the film is not a period piece. While Emma is set in the early nineteenth century in the country village of Highbury‚ sixteen miles out of London‚ England‚ Clueless is set in Bronson Alcott High School almost two hundred years later
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A hundred and seventy years apart‚ yet Jane Austen’s novel and Amy Heckerling’s film both explore the themes of marriage‚ money and social status. The values and techniques of the composers are demonstrated by the final chapter of Emma and Scene Three of Clueless‚ at the school walkway. On the one hand‚ we have the small‚ traditional English village of Highbury. On the other‚ Beverly Hills‚ icon of consumerism‚ globalisation and change. Both are experiencing escalating social fluidity as wealth
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How does the composer of Clueless use film techniques to transform the social‚ historical and environmental context of Jane Austen’s Emma to the modern context of Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s Clueless involves a storyline‚ which closely follows the text of Jane Austen’s novel Emma. However‚ there are some key points of difference in the transformation that has taken place. This is due to the individual context of the nineteenth century prose text and that of the modern appropriated film text. The
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Are you expected to go to school‚ university‚ church or a temple and why? The notion of control in Emma is explored through an examination of contextual values and ideologies that confine and limit the characters. Control is an essential feature of life. It orders society and defines social expectations within the diegesis of Emma. This is mimetic of Jane Austen’s own context and our own. Women in Emma were controlled through the social construct of ‘propriety’. Additionally‚ marriage controlled a
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