... where she would form new opinions and gain the manners and customs appropriate for a woman of Emma's social status. Harriet Smith is neither a clever or bright person, Harriet is therefore perfect material for Emma to mould. In Clueless, like Emma, Cher sets out to improve Tai, the new girl at school and the equivalent to Harriet Smith in Emma. Like Harriet ... Fairfax, Miss Bates and her deaf grandmother Mrs. bates weren't in the film. The part of Christian in the film was gay because I think they wanted to have a modern version. Maybe it was to difficult to place the Bates family into...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the writings the likes of Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott. In Madame Bovary, Emma has a certain romantic aspect similar to Flaubert that is a longing for things to be perfect. This perfectionism was arguably an obsession for Flaubert as evidenced by the meticulous care and time he took to write this work. In college, Flaubert fell victim to excessive romantic ... tradition of combining a realistic portrayal of society with a formalistic desire to create a new way of life in much the same way Degas and Manet attempted to paint the mediocrity of modern life without becoming vul...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... their context may vary vastly. The attitude towards certain values such as marriage, social status and education in both texts are reinforced by each other. Is the film just another "modern" remake of a great novel? Perhaps not, lets have a closer look. Even though now Emma is considered a canonical text, during the time of first publication it would have been perceived the ... education. Nevertheless, in Clueless certain skills such as negotiation and communication are valued just as in Emma where artistic abilities are valued and are shown through the accomplished Jane Fairfax. A perf...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate