novel is strong and courageous. However‚ in the novel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen‚ this is not the case. The heroine in this novel is more like a damsel in distress‚ someone who is confused and entangled in many life problems. Eleanor Tilney’s characteristics of vulnerability and dependence classify her as the real gothic heroine. A heroine illustrated as powerless seems to be contradicting‚ but is used on purpose. Austen uses satire to portray Eleanor Tilney with the title of a heroine‚ but is
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Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice are two of the most admirable and exquisite works ever written about the struggling love of two opposing forces. The novels have had a great literary importance and give us a sense of love and marriage on its most bewildered journey during the Elizabethan Era and the Napoleonic wars. Even though these two novels are from two different eras and are quite divergent as a result of it‚ this essay will argue that both Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice are
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INTRODUCTION In a journal entry from July‚ 1910‚ E. M. Forster wrote‚ "However gross my desires‚ I find that I shall never satisfy them for the fear of annoying others. I am glad to come across this much good in me. It serves instead of purity." Although Forster wrote this passage some two years after he published A Room with a View‚ it could have been written at almost anytime during his long life. However much he understood the "holiness of direct desire‚" the emotional purity one achieves by
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DISCLAIMER: this is not the best essay (it’s rubbish but take from it what you will) To some extent‚ the statement is true as proof lies in many plays and novels. An example of this is Shakespeare’s comedic plays. The play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ begins in Athens where there is turmoil in the sense that Egeus’ daughter‚ Hermia‚ does not want to marry Demetrius. At the time of writing the play‚ these kinds of issues where the epitome of turmoil‚ parents were desperate to have their daughters
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Ideas about the human condition can transcend time and expressed through different contexts while reflecting society’s changing values. Emma‚ written by Jane Austen reaffirms and challenges the conservative society of 19th century England‚ where moral growth is a result of strict social etiquettes and rigid class structure. However‚ Heckerling has taken similar ideas that speak powerfully about human nature to the different context of 20th century America‚ within the world of Clueless where a much
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It is so easy and slot-friendly to mistake a celebration of Bollywood’s kitsch to be actual kitsch. But to confuse Gurinder Chadha’s delicious‚ walloping and wacky adaptation of Jane Austen as a take on the Bollywood formula is to‚ quite simply‚ confuse the wood for the trees. Jane Austen meets Manoj Kumar in "Bride & Prejudice". And they are finally moulded into a vision that’s entirely and incontrovertibly Chadha’s. In her projection of the classic and the kitsch in the same range of vision‚ Beckham
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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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the higher class are much more stuck up than others. Many of the Upper class act superior to others and do not always associate with the lower class citizens. “Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane‚ nor half so good humored as Lydia” (“Pride and Prejudice” 13) The Bennets were middle class people‚ although still
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The classic novel ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen explores the character Anne Elliot‚ a 27-year-old unappreciated and self-sacrificing woman dealing with the emotional consequences of a returned love that she had been persuaded to reject in marriage seven years earlier. Austen exposes Anne as a timid and self-sacrificing character‚ her emotions and thoughts internalized and her presence dismissed by those around her. As the heroine of the novel Austen’s values are conveyed through Anne‚ displaying her
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senseless‚ vulgar flirt and a mean‚ unscrupulous man. In contrast‚ the love of Jane and Bingley is straightforward‚ simple‚ pure‚ and innocent. The relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth is a perfect match between two animated and intelligent adults who truly love‚ support‚ and respect one another. It is Jane Austen’s picture of the ideal marriage. | | Pride and prejudice are additional central concerns of Jane Austen in this novel. Early in the book‚ she defines pride‚ via Mary Bennet‚ as the
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