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Jane Austen’s satirical guide to proper etiquette and decorum prose fiction/novel Emma (1815) and Amy Heckerling’s teen flick Clueless (1995) were two poles apart yet it retained the essential contexts of the original text. While the original plot of Emma has been altered the themes in Clueless remain the same through textual, intertextual and contextual means. By acclimatizing the picturesque country society of Highbury contrasted to those of the higher class into the fast-paced modernity of…

Na Chen Argumentative Essay-Scarlet “There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good Pride represents our dignity and self respected. ‘Bad Pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.” This quote by John C. Maxwell explains how pride could be good or bad. Also, there are many quotes from the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” saying how pride could be wonderful or terrible. Pride is a terrible thing to have because it could lead you to hurt others, ruin…

with the tone, the characters, the setting, and any current or underlying conflict. These qualities can easily be seen and acknowledged in the first chapter of Emma, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre as the author has used the introduction to set the basis for the rest of the novels. The first chapter of Jane Austen’s Emma opens into the story. It begins at the Woodhouse home, Hartfield, and introduces five different characters to the plotline as well as the tone and conflict. First is Emma…

Jane Austen was a very influential writer in the nineteenth century; she has never faded from popular opinion or discussions. Many of Austen’s novels, such as Emma, have been reimagined into films, enabling her to reach many different audiences through different interpretations. Emma is a beautiful novel about a young woman who is convinced that she will never marry; she does, however, what to help whoever she can in this matter. Once she deems herself successful in matching Miss Taylor, “less a…

It is extremely rare for someone to just write one book and be famous and important in the literary world. The author Mitchell Margret of Gone with the Wind did it, However. Since 1936, this book had been published, it has been translated into 29 different kinds of languages, and remains the most popular novel until today and has great impact on people. ( http://baike.haosou.com/doc/2611564-7572390.html ) This story contains many aspects of life: about attitudes, choices, relationship between…

Anne Boleyn’s final words were said on May 19th, 1536 as she stood before the block to a crowd of on-lookers. Her words were written by Tudor chronicler Edward Hall and will be known throughout time as the powerful words of the first queen to ever be publicly executed. Anne stated calmly, “Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak…

presentation and significance of Jane’s relationship with Helen burns? Jane and Helen both have opposing personalities yet are best friends. Jane’s relationship with Helen is very significant as it shapes Jane to be a better person. After the death of Helen she carries and remembers her teachings in the earlier and later stages of her life. Helen is a student at Lowood School, and becomes Jane’s best friend. There first interaction was when Jane was punished for dropping her slate and was dammed…

his choices, his motifs, and his constant attempt to fill some kind of emptiness or void. Rochester is often depicted as confused, not easily fooled but easily manipulated. Rochester is a troubled man who doesn’t know what he wants until he meets Jane Eyre. Rochester has a history of what some might call child neglect. He was constantly ignored and not given the attention a child deserves, but his brother was not, as a matter of fact his brother was the opposite. Rochester’s brother had gotten…

The novel ,Jane Eyre, begins with the narration of a young orphan name Jane, Who lives with her Aunt Mrs. Reed, and her three cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana Reed. Whom which she has been forbidden to play with so instead she has taken interest in in a book, Bewick’s History of British Birds. Jane is forced to live with her Aunt because both her mother and father have passed, causing her to be a subject of her aunts charity. Being That she is from a lower class than her wealthy upscale…

An Examination of Feminism in Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is often lauded as a novel of great importance in the world of feminist literature. Of course, the titular character is relatively independent, she wants things for herself, and her idea of a good life does not begin and end with marriage. There is much more to Jane than that. Jane Eyre was surely very feminist for the time, and does have a solid handful of human values, but to put it on a pedestal as some sort of Great…