Jane Austen creates comedy in her novels by using three main techniques These techniques are Irony Satire of characters society rules and caricatures Along with irony there is also dramatic irony which is very different to irony Dramatic irony consists of a situation whereby the reader participates with the author in a knowledge of events which have not been disclosed to the character Austen augments this form of irony by concealing facts from the reader thereby building up a false anticipation
Texts are cultural artefacts that reflect the values of their various societies The two texts Emma by Jane Austin and Clueless by Amy Heckerling both use various techniques to discuss their relevant cultural values Through the studies of the similarities of these two texts Clueless becomes a reflection of the past which is shown in Emma In the introduction of the texts there is an extreme amount of detail that is discovered about the main Characters Emma and Cher The film clueless begins with a
Select two different significant elements in Jane Austens novel Emma and analyse how they are reshaped to create new meaning in Amy Heckerlings film Clueless Transformations require an imaginative reshaping of significant elements of a text for new contexts Jane Austens Emma has been modernized and transformed into the Amy Heckerlings film Clueless For this to be successful Heckerling must keep the key elements and reshape them to create new meaning Emma has been transformed into Cher They both
The transformation of the Jane Austens novel Emma into the Amy Heckerlings teen pic Clueless involves changing the original text in to another medium set in a different context to allow a re assessment of the values present in the text thus enabling the audience to gain a greater insight and appreciation of the ideals and concerns outlined by Austin in Emma The themes presented by Austin in Emma are universal and timeless which enables Heckerling to adapt them to a context a modern audience can
How has the study of Emma and its appropriate clueless developed your understanding of how context influenced values Select at least 2 significant moments of Austens Emma and analyse how these moments are considered in order to create meaning in Heckerlings Clueless In your response focus on ideas context values and language HeckerlingsClueless 1995 is transformed through Austens 19thCentury novel Emma where the plot and characters have been transformed to suit Heckerlings context and contempor
Transformations How has your perceptions of transformations been illuminated by your comparative study of the prescribed texts The responders understanding of transformations has been illuminated by a comparative study of Jane Austens Emma and Amy Heckerlings Clueless The word transformation refers to the change of form or appearance In order for Heckerling to transform Emma she needed to change the context of Austens 19th Century English novel Emma to better fit her 20th Century American film
An Analysis of the Loathsome Emma Bovary In Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary the character of Emma Bovary is in a constant internal struggle between what most would consider a normal life and her overly romantic fantasies Emma is an amoral housewife in the sense that she pursues extra marital affairs out of boredom without ever taking into consideration the feelings of anyone around her Throughout her life Emma has developed slowly through a series of increasingly immoral actions from the school
Emma is a sweet girl who has everything that she could want and therefore has been spoiled for most of her life She is a woman who has lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her She lives at her home in Highbury with her father Their house Heartfield is the second largest only to Donwell Abbey this shows their position in the community Because of her position Emma feels like she should set the towns standards and manage peoples lives and the social calendar When she is determine
As the context is altered from Jane Austens 19th century novel Emma to the late 20th century film Clueless directed by Amy Heckerling the initial attitudes towards the existence of patriarchy in society remain of concern but adjust to their new backgrounds Austens novel through Emmas self improvement shows the notions of the importance of marriage as a subjectification of women and also uses the characters of Emma to challenge societys patriarchy and Mr Knightley as the male archetype to whom E
Youthful Emma Woodhouse whose long time governess and friend Miss Taylor has just married Mr Weston takes some solace in being left alone with her aging father by claiming that she made the match herself An old friend of the family Mr George Knightley does not believe her but in her certainty she decides that she must also marry off the young rector Mr Elton Among her friends and acquaintances in the large and populous village of Highbury she begins to notice young Harriet Smith the pretty ille