Emma/Clueless speech Draft thesis: The ideas of appearance vs reality‚ development of maturity and love are ideas explored through techniques‚ Appearance vs reality -blindness to truth Emma | Clueless | * Manipulating reality to suit perception of it * Resulting self-deception‚ confusion‚ misunderstanding * Dramatic irony empowering us to see through human flaws and social failings of Emma. This often has unexpected results:-Mr Elton’s proposal “she could have been so deceived...she
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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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emma watson fashion and modelling Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson born 15 April 1990 is an English actress and model who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger‚ one of three starring roles in the Harry Potter film series. Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine‚ having previously acted only in school plays. From 2001 to 2010‚ she starred in seven Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint; she will return for the final installment: the second part of Harry Potter and
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Emma‚ authored by Jane Austen‚ tells a story of a wealthy young woman ’s schemes to match up her new‚ and much more poor‚ friend with the town ’s unsuspecting bachelors. What is revealed‚ however‚ is not Emma ’s skills in match-making‚ but her inability to see the true feelings of those around her‚ as well as her own heart. Emma took place in a small town called Highbury‚ in 18th century England. During the time period‚ there was a definite social rank. Almost all of the scenes in the book take
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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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Emma Goldman and Anarchism The late 1800’s and early 1900’s in the United States was a time of seemingly never ending change and reform. As some may put it‚ America was feeling growing pains. The Civil War had ended and civil rights for African-Americans had become a highly controversial issue. Another issue in the nation included the status of immigrants and deportation. This issue hovered over the heads of a number of foreign communities‚ but none more so than the Chinese. With the ever expanding
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various circumstances involving different composers‚ whether they are social‚ cultural or historical‚ influences vastly on the thematic concerns of every text. The author‚ Jane Austen’s context‚ the Regency Era‚ profoundly shapes the canonical text‚ Emma. In her novel‚ Austen continually explores aspects of the patriarchal society of her time‚ its rigid social structure‚ the value of birthright and wealth‚ as well as the great worth of marriage to women. From the beginning‚ the concept of male supremacy
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Emma Just as Mr. Woodhouse had predicted‚ the air was chilling. Mr. John Knightley made an enthusiastic comment‚ “By God‚ Mr. Woodhouse! Snow is falling upon us tonight.” “Ahh! of course I was right.” Mr Woodhouse turned to Mr. George Knightley and looked him up and down‚ “Did I not warn you to dress warm‚ my son? Why‚ you look half dressed? Have you looked this way all night?! You look to be in costume for a circus!” Mr. George Knightley‚ assisted by Mr. Weston loaded Mr. Woodhouse into his limousine;
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