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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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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