Comparative studies‚ Emma and Sive IMPORTANCE OF MONEY ‘Emma’ is set in England in the early nineteenth century. Jane Austen succeeds in communicating the values of her culture and society. Money is highly valued in this society. People are judged by their wealth and material possessions. In some ways the cultural context of ‘Sive’ is utterly different to that of ‘Emma’. It too is set in a stable rural society of families and neighbours‚ but quite unlike the novel‚ the main characters lead
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Emma Tremaine “No matter how your heart is grieving‚ if you keep on believing‚ the dreams that you wish will come true”-Cinderella; Is this statement always true? Emma was an evil seamstress from a small village and there she bossed around her two sisters Anastasia and Drizella. Emma was their mother’s favorite and they were treated like servants. Their father had recently died and their mother was unaffected‚ but they carried a weight in their hearts. They felt as though they only had half a heart
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the novel Emma‚ by Jane Austen and the film Clueless by Amy Heckerling‚ we discover that both texts are influenced by‚ and reflect the values of their respective contexts. Emma is set in the isolated‚ rural town of Highbury‚ England in the early 1800’s‚ at a time where society had placed value on social hierarchy. This distinction between classes was largely determined by family lines and inheritance. It is in the upper class of society that Jane Austen places her protagonist‚ Emma‚ “handsome
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Parallels are drawn between the values and attitudes of post-modern and regency society in Emma ’s carriage incident and Clueless ’ car scene. In Emma‚ Mr Elton displays complete disgust and outrage at the notion of marrying the socially inferior Harriet‚ exclaiming ’Good heaven! What can be the meaning of this? ’ This segregation and incompatibility of differing social classes is also portrayed in Clueless through Elton ’s outburst of ’Don ’t you even know who my father is? ’ revealing the transcending
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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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PB: In brief Michael‚ Emma has preserved its appeal through Austen’s exploration of values and attitudes‚ attuned to modern audiences. These values and attitudes in turn parallel with that of readers in a modern context‚ providing the novel with a sense of universality. MC: Fascinating observation Paula‚ can you specify what values and attitudes still pervade in a contemporary context? PB: The values and attitudes that Austen has chosen to explore in Emma address the strict nature of social classes
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In any novel‚ the theme cannot be discussed without the Main character and therefore it follows that Edmond Dantes would be another character source of the portrayal of Wait and Hope. Like Mercedes‚ Dantes acts this way‚ because it is an inherent part of himself‚ demonstrated by multiple instances of him portraying wait and hope in his different personalities. For example‚ page 35‚ he declares to his fiance‚ "Good-bye my sweet Mercedes! We shall soon meet again!" In the scene‚ Dantes exclaims that
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The titular character of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac is a deeply complicated man‚ a hero with many insecurities and many desires he hides behind a facade of bravado. However‚ there are no soliloquies to help understand these motivations and personality. Instead‚ the audience learns this information through his interactions with several minor characters‚ with each showcasing a part of Cyrano’s personality that remains unseen when the bombastic polymath is on stage‚ challenging the
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The central idea for the essay “ Ongoingness” is that when we are recording things with writing or with photography‚ we aren’t experiencing the moments. As stated by Sarah Manguso in the essay‚” The trouble was that I failed to record so much. I’d write about a few moments‚ but the surrounding time- there was so much of it! So much apparent nothing I ignored‚ that I treated as empty time between the memorable moments.” Manguso was explaining how she was only focused on the beginning and the end‚
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That Summer The book “That Summer” by Sarah Dessen is a book about the relationship between two sisters‚ who have their struggles but come together in the end more as friends than as a family member. Haven is just another teenage girl that doesn’t agree with what her body looks like and tries her hardest to either be noticed by the guy she likes or hide in the crowd from the girls she wants to avoid. Haven is six feet tall her freshman year and lives in the shadow of her twenty-one year old sister
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