Jane Austen ’s Emma and the Romantic Imagination "To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." William Blake‚ Auguries of Innocence ’ Imagination‚ to the people of the eighteenth century of whom William Blake and Jane Austen are but two‚ involves the twisting of the relationship between fantasy and reality to arrive at a fantastical point at which a world can be extrapolated from a single grain of sand‚ and all
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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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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 by Jane Austen Cultural context The novel I have studied is Emma by Jane Austen. The cultural context to which we are introduced in the novel ’Emma ’ by Jane Austen‚ is the world of the middle classes in the nineteenth century. In this essay I will look‚ firstly‚ at the role of women in this world. I will examine the very limited opportunities a woman had in terms of education and finding a career which would allow her to live an independent life in the world of the novel. Secondly‚ I will
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Emma / Clueless comparative essay – film techniques How do the film techniques help in the exploration of the themes in ‘Emma’ and ‘Clueless’? Refer to the films in detail. The directors of the films ‘Emma’ and ‘Clueless’ use a range of film techniques to highlight the themes of the texts. Diarmuid Lawrence and Amy Heckerling explore the themes of marriage and matches‚ distortion of vision‚ social and moral responsibility‚ and the importance of self-knowledge. A detailed analysis of four parallel
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Families were too different‚ perhaps too happy‚ she had decided. Families … they just weren’t what Emma wanted. Well‚ it wasn’t like she could get much she wanted; she didn’t have a house to live in‚ a warm bed to sleep in‚ healthy food to eat or clean water to drink. She didn’t even have a mother or father to love or be loved by. But she wouldn’t want to have a family of her own – for fear of what she had to endure would happen to her own children. The tympanic rhythm of Emma’s ragged‚ dirty boots
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Like all of Jane Austin’s books‚ Emma is a story about women moving up on the social ladder through marriage. In that time‚ women in England were denied the possibility of improving their social status through hard work. In order for them to move up on the social ladder‚ they had to marry someone who was considered to be of a higher class. The role of women in the nineteenth century England was to attract a husband who had a higher social status‚ thereby creating a respectable identity for themselves
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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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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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