... is a sound effect and a method of creating moods in film. To show how nervous and anxious Cher is about waiting for Christian's phone call, Heckerling presents the audience with a frame taken up completely by the phone as it rings. This extreme close-up is used by Heckerling attempts ... and leisurely style of writing additionally reflects the "dominant discourse" of the society she lived in (O"Shaughnessy & Stadler 189). A society in which walking out for a minor shopping excursion was a major highlight. She aims to propose the values of the English society during the early nineteenth ...

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... is reinforced by Cher's seductive invitation "you want to go swimming?" as she is pursuing a man of her choice. The school promenade features a close-up montage of teenage boy fashion and Cher's rhetorical question "and we're expected to swoon?" further develops the expectations women have placed upon men. The crosscut into a wide shot of the wedding ... . Despite having an increased empowerment, similarities between both societies is portrayed through women's role as domestic goddesses and their continual dependence on a protective male figure. Cher's voiceover in "whenever a boy comes,...

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... a wall of misapprehensions and misunderstandings between them, and it isn't until Mr Darcy's proposal, do we as the readers find out about any desire to overcome this wall. Not only a twenty-first century reader, but a nineteenth century reader could have pointed out just how undesirable this situation is. Jane Austen has created a fairly complex story to surround a fairly simple moral: never judge ... the issue of love and marriage. In Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's view of love has become the basis for the typical love story. Boy meets girl. Girl hates boy. Boy proves himself to gir...

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... . He knows that Ms. Churchill will not approve of this match and he must maintain his appearance to succeed in this manner. Meanwhile, Heckerling cleverly transforms Frank into Christian, "A cake-boy disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy." This feature makes the character more believable and it deals with the relative openness of sexual preference, which was ... ...

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... a better. But I have always observed, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted, boy in the world," and even proceeds to say, "He is the best landlord, and the best master that ever lived. Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think ... ...

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... everyone can relate to some aspect of the events that take place, whether it be the first love emotions or a jealous rage. Buddy is a teenage boy with no direction and no motivation, he seeks a father figure to replace his own who is divorcing his mother, and Harry Flowers seems to be his ... evident through the Avenger, when reading the first few chapters, one believes that this Avenger is actually a decent person and is really out to do well. However further into the novel it becomes apparent that he is actually a cold-hearted killer, which drastically changes the reader's notion of .....

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... However, had it been written in a present day setting and with current social stigmas, perhaps I would have liked it more. As a fifteen year old boy I did not find this diction easy to comprehend. It took me double the time to read this complicated language than it would have if it were to be ... and old english prose were both major turn off's for me, but that is just a personal preference of mine. I also thought that the novel was extremely drawn out. Why did you make it over a year before Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy could finally end up together? I understand that certain "proper "...

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... Elizabeth counters Mrs. Bennet's need to be formally introduced to Bingley by saying they will just meet him at the assembly which supports her father who says he will not call upon Bingley even though the whole time he does intend to do so. Another women mentioned in the novel, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, can be seen as a woman completely stereotypical ... ...

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... of beliefs to blend into society. Whether it is wearing a certain article of clothing or behaving a certain way in public, we all have participated in this invisible barrier that we call normal behavior. Like Anne, we have sacrificed our happiness in order to be accepted or liked. In the play, The Merchant of Venice, Portia is not allowed to pick who ... ...

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... sees the importance of only speaking to someone if you have been formally introduced to them. This is shown by the way Mrs. Bennet reacts to Mr. Bennet's refusal to "call on" Mr. Bingley so that her and the Daughters may then in turn be introduced. This value is put in place to secure the stratification of the class system, without ... ...

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... in both the novel and film. One of the relationships is that between the daughter and her father. Both Emma and Cher have a close yet out of the ordinary relationship with their father, as each girl can do no wrong to them. And both Emma's and Cher's fathers are very generous ... 's social status. Harriet Smith is neither a clever or bright person, Harriet is therefore perfect material for Emma to mould. In Clueless, like Emma, Cher sets out to improve Tai, the new girl at school and the equivalent to Harriet Smith in Emma. Like Harriet, Tai is obviously of a lower class than Cher as .....

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... 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 persian mafia are a few of these divisions. "And there's Elton and the most popular boys in the school. If you ... are going to date a high school boy, these are the only acceptable ones." In the modern world of today, where politics has dissolved the distinct class divisions, Heckerling sees the reality that these classes still exist in ... ...

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... she does not need a man in the end has found true love. "Clueless" has that exact parallel in it's plot when Cher 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 ... because obviously a rich adult male lawyer cannot manage life on his own without his daughter caring for his every need. Although both Emma and Cher do not appear to be out looking for a future relationship it is evident that they are already dependent upon their relationships...

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... heroine of Brontë is something different because she has no high social status, she is poor, uninteresting, small and plain and Quaker-like girl. Nevertheless her personality is standing out above the others, because she is not following contemporary convention, but she venerates equality of rights and gender instead of submission. "Women are supposed to be very calm generally ... years old, she opposed her evil aunt Reed and she told her what she thought about her despotic upbringing. "I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live." (68) " P...

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... that his father never actually meant for him to give the girls anything. By praising his nonexistent generosity and urging that he consider the future of their "poor little boy," Fanny proceeds to persuade John that his mother-in-law and sisters are in no real need of money and that their son Harry will surely live in penury ... . 14). Austen then compares Robert's life to Edward's by describing his "increasing attachment to his wife and his home" and his "regular cheerfulness of spirits," pointing out that Edward would certainly not trade Robert's life of wealth for his own life of happ...

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... no joy in reading any novel by Austen, this one included. In many ways Mr. Bennet stands as a literary monument to the writer's amazing storytelling ability. While his personality sticks out among others in the novel like a sore thumb, his place in the plot has monumental importance not only to the task of saving an unappreciative reader from boredom but also ... times embarrassing phrases is checked by her husband's witty remarks and one liners. A similar situation is created with Mr. Collins, whom Mr. Bennet is unashamedly amused by during his first call to Longbourn despite the serio...

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... representation of him: "and [she] was confident at last, that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy" (II.ii). This "at last" implies that she is twisting the facts to agree with what she and others want to believe. Be attentive to such ... and self-knowledge, for although she "always saw . . . with pain" his improprieties, she does not now, as she used to, try to put them out of her mind because of her affection for him. This growth of Elizabeth's perception, although it gives her pain, also makes her a better person; it is...

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... my head against the door and cutting it. The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded. "Wicked and cruel boy!" I said. "You are like a murderer--you are like a slave-driver--you are like the Roman emperors!" (C. Bronte, Jane Eyre, Hertforshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited ... and I received him in frantic sort. I don't very well know what I did with my hands, but he called me "Rat! Rat!" and bellowed out aloud- (Bronte, p5). Mrs. Reed holds Jane responsible for the scuffle and sends her to the "red-room" - the frightening chamber in which her...

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... humiliated fury, with what psychologists [Such as Helen Block Lewis in "Introduction: Shame--The `Sleeper' in Psychoathology," The Role of Shame in Symptom Formation, edited by Lewis (1987)] today would call "shame-rage" (Lewis, "Shame" 19): "She lost all compassion in anger.... `If I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you. But I cannot.... The feelings which, you tell me, have long prevented ... before they took place." When Darcy and Bingley revisit Longbourn, Elizabeth's "shame," "misery" and "wretchedness" all return as she listens to her mother brag about Lydia's marriage and ...

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... 15 year old Lydia Bennet is strikingly similar to that of Mr. Bennets's. Consequently, with his knowledge regarding how Mrs. Bennet "s relationship turned out, the reader is drawn into the story wondering if Wickham will be succumbed by "foolish love", or if he will use his knowledge of the Bennet ... 's relationship to back out of a potential unhappy marriage. Furthermore, Wickham's eloping with Georgian in the middle of the story and request for 10,000 dollars before agreeing ... also helps to alter Elizabeth's first impression of Darcy. Although not noticeable at first glance, conside...

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... the Regency, she disregards what her heart is saying in favor of a rule that stifles ones true feelings. During the Regency, when a woman lets out her emotions she is thought to have no class or manners. An example of this is when Marianne sees Willoughby at a social gathering. One must ... by their first names and/or pet names. However, during the Regency a husband and wife address each other as Mr. and Mrs.. Jane Austen is pointing out that during this period the rules made it so even a married couple didn't show each other affection. When referring to a person with proper titles (Mr ....

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... . "Catherine's understanding began to awake: an idea of the truth suddenly darted into her mind; and, with the natural blush of someone of so new an emotion, she cried out, 'Good heaven! – can you really be in love with James?'"(Austen 131). Catherine's gullible and ignorant character comes to the conclusion of Isabella and James being in ... ...

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... net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you." As Rochester tries to win her back - even when she'd just found out of his marriage - she's saying that she is not a bird which gets trapped in Rochester's cage at his will. She declares that she is an independent human being with choices ... ...

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Jane Austen is one of the most prominent women novelists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Out of all her novels, Pride and Prejudice is by far most popular as well as the most critically acclaimed novel. This novel deals with the politics of love and marriage ... ...

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... impression she gets from them. Most of the time she is right. For example her first impression of Mr. Collins was that he was a solemn and awkward man. This turns out to be true and Elizabeth is repulsed by him and rejects his marriage proposal. One time Elizabeth completely misjudges a person's character, and that person is Darcy. Darcy acted distant and ... ...

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