Emma/Clueless • Amy Heckerling’s teenpic comedy Clueless resonates the ideas‚ values and cultural assumptions evident in Jane Austen’s Emma • Through the transformation of Austen’s text‚ several elements have been transformed and contemporised in the Heckerling’s Clueless ▪ Make-over/transformation ▪ Role of women in patriarchal society ▪ Struggles of social classes: the mobility and fluidity of the class structure ▪ Societal commentary
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class systems that prevent women from improving their own extremely limited agency. Jane’s courtship to Frank Churchill shows how a woman can reap the associated benefits of increased power and agency through marriage. Through the representation of Emma‚ Austen implies that an educated young woman not only can achieve a happy marriage based on equality rather than subservience‚ on love rather than submission‚ but she also can play a crucial role in insuring the moral health of her society. By writing
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adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Emma. It closely parallels the story in terms of characterization and actions. Both of the main characters‚ Cher and Emma‚ are spoiled‚ high class snobs who‚ after undergoing a crisis brought on by their own pride and repression of their feelings‚ are transformed from callowness to mental and emotional maturity. However‚ the film also diverges from the original story in that it eliminates a key character and events that have an effect on Emma Woodhouse’s psychological growth
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English Long Book Report Chan Hiu Tung Christie 4C (2) Title: Emma Author: Jane Austen Publisher: Pearson Education Limited What is love? How can we do to catch our own true love? I found the answer after reading the book‚ Emma. Emma‚ which talked about Emma Woodhouse‚ who is a beautiful‚ clever but with little spoiled girl. She is rich and she loves arrange marriage between her friends and neighbours in a village called Highbury. Unfortunately‚ she makes a lot of
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Jane Austen portrays the society of the novel‚ Emma‚ through the values and standards of the Highbury world. Highbury is a "large and prosperous village almost amounting to a town‚" sixteen miles out of London. In Emma we find there is an emphasis placed on social organisation and mores. Hartfield is the home of the Woodhouses‚ who are the "first in consequence in Highbury." Indeed‚ all the fully developed characters in the novel belong to the upper middle class - the cultural elite. Consequently
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Emma - Understanding Jane Austen ’s World Pamela Whalan has been a member of the Study Day Committee of JASA since 1999 and has been involved in the successful presentation of study days on Emma‚ Mansfield Park‚ Sense and Sensibility‚ Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey. She has directed successful seasons of I Have Five Daughters (an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice) and an adaptation for the stage of Emma. She has written a stage adaptation of Mansfield Park and directed this play for
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NOVELS Jane Austen is generally acknowledged to be one of the great English novelists‚ so it is no surprise that her novels have remained continuously in print from her day to the present. Contemporary reviewers found much to praise in them. Reviewing Emma for the Quarterly Review (1816)‚ Sir Walter Scott characterized its strengths and weaknesses: The author’s knowledge of the world‚ and the peculiar tact with which she presents characters that the reader cannot fail to recognize‚ reminds
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http://bridgetarchive.altervista.org/contextualizing.htm When Bridget Jones ’s Diary was published in 1996‚ Helen Fielding was praised by masses of readers and reviewers for the authenticity of the narrative voice. However‚ not everyone was willing to accept the hapless comic heroine as the typical thirty-something single woman of the 1990s‚ and more demanding critics noted the ways in which Bridget ’s character and her story are problematic‚ particularly from a feminist point of view. Bridget
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Jane Austen’s Word: a reading of Jane Austen’s novels shows that her materials are extremely limited in themselves. Her subject matter is limited to the manners of a small section of country-gentry who apparently never have been worried about death or sex‚ hunger or war‚ guilt or God. Jane Austen herself referred to her work as “Two inches of ivory.” In a letter to her niece‚ Jane Austen wrote‚ “Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on.” Those three or four families
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Pride and Prejudice Motif Essay In her novel Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen uses various characters in her novel to convey her message of the injustices and bias that were experienced during the early 19th century in society. Throughout the novel‚ Austen shows how destructive the mindset of a prejudiced person can truly be. Austen conveys her message through the novel’s protagonists‚ Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. In the opening pages of the book‚ the residents of Longbourn are all attending a ball‚
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