... thus wears comfortable clothes. Thus, this shows how the different mediums affect how the visual and written text collaborates to generate identical meaning. The social purpose for Austen's creation of Emma was primarily to entertain. However, the gentle and leisurely style of writing additionally reflects the "dominant discourse" of the society she lived in (O"Shaughnessy & Stadler 189). A society in which ... and meaning, where Heckerling creates the values similarly through dialogue as well as her selection of particular characters. In addition, the process of transformation of Jane ...

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... for Harriet) and diverts these affections to Mr Elton, obviously a superior match to Harriet. When Harriet's parentage (her father being a tradesman) and her engagement to Robert Martin is revealed Emma realizes that her friendship with Harriet must "change into a calmer sort of good-will", i.e. reduce their intimacy to an acquaintance because of their different social positions. Austen at times considers ... Cher's popularity arises from her affluent father and her fashion sense. When Cher becomes friends with Tai, Dionne clearly states "Our stock would plummet", referring to their popu...

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... Amy Heckerling explore the themes of marriage and matches, distortion of vision, social and moral responsibility, and the importance of self-knowledge. A detailed analysis of four parallel scenes in 'Emma' and 'Clueless' show how film techniques are utilized to help convey meaning in a text. Film techniques that Lawrence and Heckerling employed include lighting, mise-en-scene, dialogue, setting, music ... in delivering their message of the distortion of vision. Lawrence and Heckerling highlight the theme of social and moral responsibility in the ball scene and the dance scene ...

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... with the feelings and situations of each character in thorough detail. Austen employs large sections of dialogue and utilizes sophisticated and often complicated sentence structure to convey the themes of Emma. The film Clueless deals primarily with the protagonist's (Cher's) thoughts through the filmic technique of voice over and with her experiences through dialogue. Due to the form of the ... themes communicated through these literary vehicles are essentially identical. The two texts are set apart from each other in the fact they are of two completely different textual forms. Austen'...

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... today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. While the film can be easily be passed as a regular ' popular- teen flick merely for entertainment purposes, an understanding of Emma adds another level of meaning. Ultimately, the viewer's response changes as an understanding of the novel highlight the parallels in characters, plot and the recreation of themes such as truth ... the Coles' dinner party and Cher's remarks of the loadies' and Amber's "designer imposter perfume-. They are also both manipulative as seen in both characters' desire to control such as Emma's ma...

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