... 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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... 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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