... 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. Matrimony ... the same man would be referred to as a "Barney-. The novel contains immense paragraphs of description which deal with the feelings and situations of each character in thorough detail. Austen employs l...

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... heroine is transformed from an ignorant, spoilt brat to a rational, perceptive character through her own downfall. However, the composers achieve the ironic mode of the text through different methods. Austen uses the omniscient narrator with simple, precise language and a refined writing style to accomplish humour, sarcasm, wit and dramatic irony. With this, she is able to gently criticise the insular ... comments that she 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 soc...

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... 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 ... Highbury into Beverly Hills High School. The high school itself has many sublevels, split according to wealth and beauty, much the same as Austen's town of Highbury. These sublevels rarely communicate with each other, but within there are many interactions. Emma's and Che...

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... , the viewer sees Clueless as a retrospect 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 h...

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... multi layered social and cultural commentary in relation to our context but has added an extra dimension by using film as her text base. During Austen's day film was non-existent and the written word was the only form of text. It was a time where compulsory education wasn't present ... 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 ......

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... as: marriage, self-growth and the relationship between appearance and reality. The patriarchal ideologies of both contexts are reflected through the idea of marriage. In Austen's society, women were classified by who their husbands are. Austen depicts this convention through the use of sarcastic authorial intrusion, having Emma "improve her (Harriet); she (Emma) would detach her from her bad acquaintance, ... 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 ...

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... 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 ... 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 that it is...

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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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