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Friday 28 July 2013
Dear Year 11 Advanced English students, ALL WORK DUE TUESDAY JULY 30, 2013
Over the holidays you need to complete: 1 Read the article, Jane Austen: A love story by Jennifer Frey and answer the questions which follow.
2 Complete Emma essay question (1000 words)
How do you feel Emma is received by the modern day audience? Do you feel the subtleties of the text are lost on them, or are they more aware of human nature and therefore more appreciative of the failings and strengths of each character? 3 Since watching the film Clueless – see if you can determine a table which outlines the commonalities and differences between the film and the novel: the first row has been done for you, however you need to expand on the rest and complete the table with the same detail as the first row.
You need to read the ETA handout to help you make some connections. What happens in Jane Austen’s Emma | What the parallel scene/example is in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless | What accounts for this difference? | 1 Setting: chapter 1 establishes Emma’s lifestyle and social status. We hear that she is “handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence” and that she had “very little to distress or vex her.” We learn here that Emma’s lifestyle in Highbury is one of supremacy and class. | Setting: just as Austen establishes Emma’s comfortable lifestyle, so too does Heckerling establish Cher as a rich, wealthy and free Beverly Hills teenager living in the early 1990s. In a voiceover we hear her say that she has a “way normal life for a teenage girl” while the backdrop of her Roman columned house is shown and inside we see a sweeping staircase reminiscent of early 19th century mansions. | Heckerling has maintained Austen’s protagonist as a wealthy and spoilt individual whose deepest concerns seem trivial. The transformation of texts seeks to show how even in our
Dear Year 11 Advanced English students, ALL WORK DUE TUESDAY JULY 30, 2013
Over the holidays you need to complete: 1 Read the article, Jane Austen: A love story by Jennifer Frey and answer the questions which follow.
2 Complete Emma essay question (1000 words)
How do you feel Emma is received by the modern day audience? Do you feel the subtleties of the text are lost on them, or are they more aware of human nature and therefore more appreciative of the failings and strengths of each character? 3 Since watching the film Clueless – see if you can determine a table which outlines the commonalities and differences between the film and the novel: the first row has been done for you, however you need to expand on the rest and complete the table with the same detail as the first row.
You need to read the ETA handout to help you make some connections. What happens in Jane Austen’s Emma | What the parallel scene/example is in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless | What accounts for this difference? | 1 Setting: chapter 1 establishes Emma’s lifestyle and social status. We hear that she is “handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence” and that she had “very little to distress or vex her.” We learn here that Emma’s lifestyle in Highbury is one of supremacy and class. | Setting: just as Austen establishes Emma’s comfortable lifestyle, so too does Heckerling establish Cher as a rich, wealthy and free Beverly Hills teenager living in the early 1990s. In a voiceover we hear her say that she has a “way normal life for a teenage girl” while the backdrop of her Roman columned house is shown and inside we see a sweeping staircase reminiscent of early 19th century mansions. | Heckerling has maintained Austen’s protagonist as a wealthy and spoilt individual whose deepest concerns seem trivial. The transformation of texts seeks to show how even in our