... messages conveyed through each text are essentially the same. The society and time in which Emma and Clueless were composed are very dissimilar from one another. Emma was written by Jane Austen in 1815, in a society where marriage and social standing were of great consequence. In the early nineteenth century, a woman married, above all, for financial security and social acceptability. ... , social rank and social values, and are still communicated through both texts. Due to the opposing contexts of Emma and Clueless, the language used in each also differs markedly. Jane Austen uses comp...

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Amy Heckerling's film Clueless is an appropriation of Jane Austen's Emma, closely paralleling the story in terms of plot and characterisation. The similar and different perceptions of the same values ... has an "ordinary" life for a teenager whilst picking her clothes for school using a computer. As if! During the Regency period, the social order for Jane Austen's society was very rigid and immobile, and social status was determined through birth class, one's marriage, connections and professional success. The value of placing great importance ... friendship with Harriet must "change into a ca...

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Clueless, a film written and directed by Amy Heckerling is and adaptation of Jane Austen's 19th century novel Emma. Clueless and Emma are equivalents of each other adapted to the context in which they ... the adaptation, the context, language and textual form has changed, although I believe the messages and themes conveyed in Clueless are essentially the messages that Jane Austen communicated to her audience in Emma. The similarities of these messages are evident when analysing the themes of social stature, vanity, transformation and deception. These ... of Highbury into Beverly Hills High S...

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... of Emma - penetrating examinations and commentaries of their contemporary society. The film is therefore no longer a simple entertainment but a movie that cleverly expels Austen's ironic voice and moral sense. Both Emma and Clueless reconstruct specific social environments and address an audience of that similar environment. Clueless is an ... epitome of how popular culture can transform a society's etiquette and code to make them appeal to the updated audience and society. During Austen's time in which Emma was written, society was based on a hierarchy of social birthright in an orderly...

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The film Clueless, written and directed by Amy Heckerling, is an version of Jane Austen's book Emma and strongly parallel the story in conditions of character progress and accomplishment. Even though Emma was written in 1816 and developed ideas and issues of that period in ... time, we can still be familiar with and recognize the exact same issues. This just proves that regardless of all the essential social changes that have taken place since Jane Austen's time, people and life haven't really changed all that much. The universal life issues of money, love, friendship, class and finding ones...

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The controversy that surrounds the transformation between Clueless directed by Amy Heckerling and Emma by Jane Austen is immense. Critics argue that Clueless is a "dumbing down" of Emma, reducing a timeless classic to a degrading, superficial and hardly distinguishable ... easily accessible and in many cases more understandable than the written word; this is the extra dimension that Heckerling has successfully added. In Emma, Austen observes the cultural norms of her time and uses satire and irony to ridicule what she saw as shameful and superficial. These narrative techniques ... teenager"...

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... they are more financially independent and have rights. However, marriage for a woman is still seen as desirable. The traditional values of marriage associated in Emma have been transformed by "Clueless." Austen writes in third person to show the way her characters interact with each other and how they value marriage. In a conversation between Emma Woodhouse and Harriet Smith, there is an ... depicted as flawed and throughout the texts, the humiliation inflicted on the heroines allows them to gain clear sightedness. Through the use of authorial intrusions and dialogue with a disagreeing ...

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... . The representation of females in these two works follows the gender bias that women are inferior to men and cannot be happy unless they are in a relationship. In Emma, by Jane Austen it is easy to see that the female characters main purpose throughout is to find suitable husbands. Even Emma who originally states that she does not need a man in the ... the novel Emma to focus so much on marriage and relationships is that it was set in the early 1800's and that was the way of society. Another possible reason Jane Austen may have written the novel to end in such a happy manner is merely t...

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