Comparing Clueless And Directed By Amy Heckerling

Adaptations of Jane Austen’s, Emma, are usually period pieces diligent in capturing and replicating the manners, dress, language and values of the original text. Clueless, written and directed by Amy Heckerling, deviates drastically from the norm, as the film is not a period piece. While Emma is set in the early nineteenth century in the country village of Highbury, sixteen miles out of London, England, Clueless is set in Bronson Alcott High School almost two hundred years later, in the late twentieth century. Despite the significantly different geographical and historical setting and the diverse social values, lifestyles, and issues than those depicted in Emma, Amy Heckerling’s high school setting retains and is

There are many romantic teen comedy movies made in the 90’s that portray the common cliques that we see in high schools around the country. There are always the popular kids and the nerdy kids. I decided to go with a more updated movie that still showcases the battle between these same cliques. The Duff is a 2015 teenage comedy that follows a high school student who is seemingly happy and content with her life, until she learns that she is considered “the designated ugly fat friend.” It is pointed out to her that this should have been obvious considering her two best friends are far more pretty and popular. She enlists a childhood friend and neighbor who is not only charming, but good looking and popular to help her reinvent herself. Her

The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins

In The Barbie Doll, the author writes about a girl' s life. The author starts off by describing her childhood. She was given dolls and toys like any other girl and she also wore hints of lipstick. This girl was healthy and rather intelligent. Even though she had possessed many good

Cher’s values drive the plot of Clueless. Popularity and appearance are both important to Cher. Towards the end of the movie, she becomes extremely jealous when Tai becomes more popular than her, calling it “an alternate universe.” She also values her appearance as she boasts, “I don’t rely on mirrors, so I always take Polaroids.” At the beginning of the movie, Cher also values materialistic items such as clothes. Before her driving test, she throws a tantrum, screaming at her maid, “Where’s my white collared shirt from Fred Segal?” She also yells at a boy at a party who accidentally spills his drink on her shoes whining, “ruin my satin shoes, why don’t you.”

The friends of the narrator, however, do not hide in the imaginary world of childhood and are maturing into adolescents. Sally, “ screamed if she got her stockings muddy,” felt they were too old to “ the games” (paragraph 9). Sally stayed by the curb and talked to the boys (paragraph 10).

Lastly, Erica is an eleven year old girl who takes drugs to try to mask the pain from living her miserable life. Also, she has sex with a sixteen year old boy, and thinks she is in love and does not use any contraceptives and gets pregnant. After becoming pregnant, the father bails and wants nothing to

“In all our lives, there is a fall from innocence. A time after which, we are never the same.” – Stand By Me. Innocence can be found at any age or any point in one’s life. It means chastity, freedom from wrong, lack of knowledge, SIMPLICITY. When one has innocence the world seems easy without any worries, however that can all change when one loses their innocence. The loss of innocence can feel as though one has fallen into a black hole and can never escape, darkness, voicelessness, LONELINESS. In Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club”, Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time”, and Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak”, the authors use main and supporting characters to show a loss of innocence at a young age. In “The Joy Luck Club” loss of innocence is expressed through the old woman from the fourth parable, “Queen Mother of the Western Skies”. In “Once Upon a Time” loss of innocence is expressed through the young boy. In “Speak” loss of innocence is expressed though Melinda. Although all three of these characters go through the same struggle of loss of innocence, Anderson’s character Melinda is able to come to terms with her loss and regain her strength. In these three stories, Tan, Gordimer, and Anderson use the theme of loss of innocence to portray loneliness, fear, and barriers to show how one can learn from past experiences.

Clueless it is set in Beverly Hills in America and in Emma is set in

She began to find herself wanting to stay in the house to read instead of going out to play. She first started reading to escape from the problems of her daily life. She would read books about black history, religion and love. When she becomes old enough to date boys she begins to read books about pornography, not knowing that these books were not fit for a girl her age. Then she begins to pleasure herself in private, but after her sisters catch her she begins to feel ashamed and never does it again.

Teenagers are young, naïve and impressionable. They are also insecure and usually sometimes unable to express themselves so they put others down. They are pressured daily to do things they really don’t want to do. They often find themselves doing something they said they would never do. Because of the influence of those around them, they are trying to cover their insecurities by saying things to make others feel bad about themselves. The traits above describe the two main characters in the short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”. Both Bernice and Marjorie are young teens dealing with the pressure of being popular and fitting in. Bernice, being the quieter, shyer girl, deals with trying to fit in in a place she feels she doesn’t belong.

The main characters of this movie is Bianca (Mae Whitman) and Wes (Robbie Amell). Bianca is a senior year high school student with Jess (Skyler Samuels) and Casey (Bianca Santos) as her close friends who are more popular than her. She is the neighbor plus former childhood friend of Wesley "Wes" Rush, a star on the school 's football team. She has a crush on guitarist Toby Tucker and attends a party of mean-girl Madison Morgan, hoping to get to know him. But in the party Wes unthinkingly reveals to her that she is the "DUFF" of her friend group, the "Designated Ugly Fat Friend." The DUFF does not actually have to be ugly or fat but the person in a social group who is less popular and more accessible than the others in the group. People exploit The DUFF to get to the popular people.

In the play “A Doll’s House” Henrik Ibsen introduces us to Nora Helmer and shows us how spontanesly her design of the ideal life can change when a secret of her is revealed. Nora’s husbands promotion to Manager of the town Bank, leaves her convince she will be living a wonderful life; stress and worry free. However, Nora’s idea of a wonderful life is completely changed when her long-kept secret is revealed.

Carter compares our nameless heroine to a soubrette. This doll is a direct replica of the narrator. It represents societies’ idea of femininity. It embodies the superficial and shallow characteristics of societies’ ideal woman. She doesn’t speak, she doesn’t argue, she only works as she was intended to, like clockwork. In order to perform her tasks, the soubrette needs someone to wind her up, again reinforcing Carter’s point that women are unable to think and act for themselves. We see the narrator powdering her cheeks in order to look like the soubrette. It is only once the heroine starts to realise her own identity and desires that she separates herself from the soubrette. She accepts that she can no longer succumb to the stereotypes that her society demands and intends to send her artificial self “back to perform the part of” her father’s daughter. Carter shows us that this view and objectification of women restricts them from realising their full potential and allows them to be dominated. This objectification continues until the end of the story. The heroine recognises that just as men see animals as soulless, they also see women as soulless beings. “The six of us, mounts and riders both-could boast amongst us not one soul" (p63). She understands now how men who claim to have souls, see her as nothing more than an object of value, a

The title character, Alice, is a young girl around pre-teen age. In the real world, the adult characters always look down on her because of her complete nonsense. She is considered the average everyday immature