... compliments. But with these compliments and cash comes a certain amount of snobbishness and maybe it is the fathers greed in their daughters that has caused this. Both Emma and Cher have the habit of getting rather too much their own way and a nature to think a little too highly of themselves. In both the film and ... novel the girl's mothers died when they were young. Emma and Cher are spoiled, in control socially, and tend to think too highly of themselves. This is a result of the lack of a maternal figure in their ... her well dressed and popular. Cher feels that her life will be bet...

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... 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 end has found true love. ... mentions that she would not date a high school boy and yet she still ends up happy and in love with Josh. One reason for 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 ... What ...

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... film is 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 ... to Austens authorial comment have given her the ability to exploit the same. The film is set in Beverley Hills, transforming the social classes of Emma's time into social groups at Bronson Alcott High School. As Cher points out to her protege Tai, the loadies, the crew and the ... ...

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