a contemporary context. The manipulation of medium‚ genre‚ setting‚ characters and plot enables the transformed text to be understood and connect with a new audience. Amy Heckerling’s post-modern film transformation Clueless (1995) is derived from Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma (1816) with both texts comparable as they use satire to address similar values. The shift in context enables the texts to reinforce the values of Regency England or 1990s Beverly Hills. Heckerling subverts and appropriates
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AP English Literature 10/14/13 Pride and Prejudice: Socialization Social class has a monumental impact on a person’s social behavior; their impressions on other individuals and society as a whole are greatly influenced by their social class/position. These “first impressions” can have disastrous effects to both the person forming the impressions and the person/people to whom they are directed towards‚ often because these perceptions blind people from their own personal faults and foibles.
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Charlotte Bronte’s‚ Jane Eyre‚ a story of an unfortunate you who’s morals and self-respect continue to fluctuate as she matures. Jane Eyre begins her life in the wrong place at the wrong time. During the novel‚ Jane endures love‚ hate and friendship‚ though maturity allows her to forgive. Settings surrounding Jane’s life alter her own ideas of self-acceptance‚ her actions taken to release herself from certain settings have effect on her. In the first few chapters‚ Bronte establishes Jane’s
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Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre; serves to underpin the fantastical nature of the bildungsroman story. In passage 3‚ Rochester’s lamentations while “sitting by the window” is reminiscent of Jane sitting in Lowood and wishing more from the world. This is expanded when Rochester describes Jane’s voice as being “spoken amongst mountains”; as Jane originally looked to the mountains and “longed to surmount” them. This parallel shows the similarities between the new Rochester and Jane‚ it reveals Rochester’s
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In Jane Austen’s Emma‚ two main characters‚ Mr. Knightley and Emma seem to have opposing views and cannot gain common ground. “There is one thing‚ Emma‚ which a man can always do‚ if he chuses‚ and that is‚ his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing‚ but by vigor and resolution. It is Frank Churchill’s duty to pay this attention to his father. He knows it to be so‚ by his promises and messages; but if he wished to do it‚ it might be done. A man who felt rightly would say at once‚ simply and resolutely
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Terry Eagleton states the "Jane ’s relationship with Rochester is marked by ambiguities of equality‚ servitude‚ and independence". By examining pertinent incidents in the text‚ the validity of this statement will be shown‚ and moreover‚ these ambiguities will be shown to be of Jane ’s own doing. It will be shown that she is the one who constantly thinks herself to be inferior‚ and even when she is said to be Rochester ’s equal‚ she thinks of some way in which she is inadequate‚ in order to sabotage
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Examine the use of the theme of social class in ‘Jane Eyre’ and how this is illuminated by your reading of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen. The novel ‘Jane Eyre’ highlights the idea of social class and the position of women in society. It tells the story of how protagonist Jane progresses through different social classes in life‚ beginning as the low position of an orphan and ending in the higher position of being both wealthy and married. Charlotte Bronte’s own social background was that
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adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel‚ Jane Eyre‚ does stay true to the novel‚ but the character of Jane is underdeveloped. In the novel Jane is a very strong-willed character and is like this in the film‚ but her past experiences that made her this way are not explored enough for the audience to fully understand her in the film. The same goes for when Jane runs away from Thornfield Hall to when she stumbles onto St John Rivers’ doorstep. The nature of Jane finding her way there is changed‚ which
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Jane Eyre Research Paper Every period in time has had its own social norms and class systems that people are expected to adhere to. In the time period in which Jane Eyre lives in‚ women have many expectations‚ rules‚ and regulations to live up to. From an early age‚ Jane learns that she is different; that she has her own morals and standards that she will not sacrifice anything for‚ even if it means defying the very laws and standards that defined society and even women in her time. Most critics
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte portrays the life of a young girl named Jane Eyre and the cruelties she experiences and witnesses in her life. Jane lives at Gateshead the house of her late uncle‚ with Mrs. Reed‚ her aunt and three cousins: John‚ Georgiana‚ and Eliza. Her family at Gateshead treats her poorly‚ they abuse her and wonder why she stays with them at Gateshead. Soon they send her off to a school for girls where Jane is introduced to unfamiliar people and a diverse way of life. Three of the
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