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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Mr. Knightley and Emma are opposites for most of the book in many ways. Emma is fake happy and thinks she does nothing wrong. “The real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way‚ and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.” (Austen 2). Emma thinks she can be truly happy by doing whatever she pleases. She also has no awareness of where social bounds are and often crosses
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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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Work week 3 13 Literary Analysis of Emma Jane Austen’s Emma Deborah Simones Emma was an independent woman who stood her ground as she tried to stand tall in the upper class society that she belonged to. She made it a point to help those that she felt needed help when it came to love and marriage. She thought that she was very accomplished at being a matchmaker. She never intended to cause harm or illusion just pleasure and self-fulfillment. Austen portrayed her as confident‚ not selfish
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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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The Social Evolution of Emma Woodhouse As the saying goes‚ one cannot judge a book by its cover. This is especially true in the novel Emma by Jane Austen. The novel pertains to this saying‚ but beyond that the characters do as well. Emma Woodhouse‚ the shallow heroine cannot see behind looks and what the reasoning is through people’s actions. She is so aloof to what is happening outside of her perspective that many people’s actions in the novel‚ which are predictable many times to the reader‚ end
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The 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
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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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Heckerling’s 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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Emma by Jane Austen Journal entry 1 The beginning of ’Emma’ is set in a small imaginary country village called Highbury‚ in around 1814 and the mood is playful and happy. The main characters in this scene are Emma Woodhouse the persona‚ Mr Woodhouse‚ Ms Taylor and Mr Knightly. Emma Woodhouse is described as ’Handsome‚ clever‚ and rich’ and happy because she ’had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’ The writer portrays how she is used to having
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