First, I believe the writer chose Emma to save the café because she is young, strong, and audacious (shows the willingness to take the surprisingly bold risk). Second, Emma is like most young people today in our society who likes to challenge authority. Emma is small, yet determined, and filled with courage she inherited from her
The Birmingham paper of Wednesday morning, December 5, contained headlines that would have been enough to capture anyone’s attention. On December 4, the body of a nicely-dressed girl around the age of eight or nine years old was found floating in the lake in the Birmingham suburbs known as East Lake. Her body was found by two teenage boys by the names of John Keith and Ben Cluberson who were innocently playing in a boat. The Jefferson County Coroner conducted an initial exam and determined that the cause of her death to be murder. Unable to identify the little girl, they placed her body for viewing in hopes someone would recognize her. Just a few days later, the local butchers identified her as being May Hawes, the oldest daughter of Richard and Emma Hawes.
The central argument that Emma uses to justified her actions is based on the fact that she has depression, but instead of communicating it immediately at the beginning of the play, she looks for an easy way to evade her problems manipulating Shelley and Oscar to get their affection at any price. In the scene 12, she confesses that she “was depressed” and for this reason deserves compassion (Schreck 96, 97). Nevertheless, this confession occurs until she is yet in problems due all the previous lies that she uses to evade all the problematic situations she must face. For instance, when Shelley starts scolding her, she spontaneously tries to avoid it by lying saying she has cancer (Schreck 18) and lies about her mother is driving her “like crazy” (31). So, Shelley takes a more compassioned attitude to her. Later, to redeem her lack of self-esteem, get Oscar´s attention leading Oscar to be unfaithful to his girlfriend. Then, when he has troubles with Rosa, Emma just evade the situation by lying again saying, “since I´ve been sick Everything feels so out of my control.” (Schreck 78) This way, Emma achieves to feel better about herself and fix
The plot for Clueless was about a student name Cher who is a smart and rich girl who is trying to survive her high school days and the daily drama of girls.The plot for Emma is about a twenty year old who believes she will never marry anyone and believes she is a perfect matchmaker.A major
Her father was Richard the Fearless of Normandy and her mother was Gunnora of Danish decent. Richard and Gunnora became lovers soon after the death of his first wife, Emma. He married Gunnora to legitimize the birth of their children, leaving him an heir to his crown. Emma was a middle child and eldest daughter amongst seven other siblings. She was born into a time of warfare, where kingdoms were feuding over land and power. “During the first few years of her life Emma would have had little contact with her mother, being raised instead by a wet nurse within the courtly household”. Her education was limited and she was basically illiterate; due to the fact she didn’t need to learn a craft and wasn’t entering a monastery. Emma knew at an early age that she would enter into an alliance through marriage, in order to strengthen Normandy. She was a very strong and determined child, which is why she was given in marriage to a kingdom that was going through a difficult situation. “Her brother Richard, who had inherited his father’s title in 996 chose Emma for the most illustrious and difficult match because she was considered best able to cope with the challenge”. Emma considered herself a noble woman and was raised to be one. She used her strength and power, which she was given throughout her childhood, to rise up in the royal world. Her rise to power all began with her arranged marriage to Ethelred II “the unready”
Appropriations provide audiences with a relevant contemporary sense of culture, while simultaneously providing insight into consistent behaviours over time, from the era of the original text to the era of the appropriation. This paradigm is reflected in a comparison study involving Jane Austen’s novel Emma (1818) and Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995). In her novel Emma, Austen reflects on the rigid social structure that formed the basis of Regency Society. Similarly, Heckerling’s Clueless emphasises how physical image determines status. Likewise, Austen’s emphasis on arranged marriages and love marriages, is contrasted by how Clueless highlights the open love, lust and sex prevalent within modern relationships. By considering the context of
The psychological effect of colorism drew Emma to cover her black identity from the judging eyes of society, instead of solving the original problem which was revealed to Emma at the end of the novel; her incapability to accept her true dark-skinned self. When Emma was in college, she gave up pursuing her education because she was uncomfortable with the environment. She was not able to be friends with the mulattos in the campus, because they all saw her as a black girl. Emma however refused to see herself as a black woman, and decided to remove herself from a situation that made her feel uncomfortable. Despite the disruption in education, Emma’s ambition helped her become a public school teacher which made her part the middle-class. She believed money would help her achieve happiness, and when that did not prove to be true, she decided to look deeper into the situation.
Transformation. What is a transformation? It is when the plot structure and focus of both texts remains intact, but the issues, values and setting are altered. Amy Heckerling’s Clueless transforms Jane Austen’s Emma by humorously depicting modern values. Emma is set during the Regency period, where it was a time of political and social change, with old rural-based values facing challenge from the new urban middle class whereas Clueless is portrayed in a post-industrial, consumer-driven society. Both composers share a common interest in highlighting class distinction; Austen emphasizes on social class in England while Heckerling focuses on the social cliques of youth in America.
She speaks about how a huge factor that changed the way she viewed the world was her new grasp of the importance of money. Emma “The end of middle school is when I fully realized that money is power and money are what you need for sustenance. You need to pursue something that will get you further in life.” As a result of her personal experiences and influences, she feels she has uncovered new interests and has developed a much more logical and realistic approach to
In Emma, the character Jane Austen presents in the novel is the type of person who likes to meddle in other people’s lives. In the film Clueless, Cher is an impersonation of Emma’s character. She also manipulates the situation, meddles in people’s lives because she feels she can manage them better than they can. In this particular adaptation of Emma, Emma is portrayed through the character Cher. Cher is also a meddler in other people’s lives. This sets the film up for an interesting and developing plot. Cher Horowitz illuminates Emma Woodhouse because they both exist in that precarious realm where lovable threatens to tip over into loathsome, but doesn’t. In the process of narrowly avoiding awfulness, both of these princesses give us
As a group of young women, we wanted to have a topic that centered around a determined and unique women or group of females. During the research that we did to try to come up with a topic, one of our group members, Emma Tellman, searched for women’s suffrage activists and found that Alice Paul was one of the more prominent suffragists in American history. But unlike Susan B. Anthony, we knew nothing about Paul and decided that her story would be that most interesting one to look into, and we made Paul our NHD project subject.
Emma gains her provincial ideals early on in her life. When she receives news at the convent that her mother has died, she weeps for several days as a show of how sad she is (or should be). When her father comes to see if she is okay, she is “...inwardly pleased to feel that she had so quickly attained that rare ideal of a pale, languid existence, beyond the reach of mediocre spirits...she was finally surprised to discover that she felt quite tranquil again and that she had no more sadness in her heart than wrinkles in her forehead.” (Flaubert, 38). Flaubert paints her as a maiden who is obsessed with how romantic she looks to other people at all times of the day in all situations. Even when her own mother dies, she puts on a show to make sure
As stated in the book, “I sit on her lap, put my head on her chest and put my arms around her and we start rocking. She holds me tight like Mama used to” (Lester 36). This is being told by Sarah Pierce and just shows the kind of person Emma is. She cares for her young ‘masters’ and acts as a mother figure when their actual mother cannot. Although slaves are frowned upon when having a relationship with white masters, Emma takes it upon herself to love and make sure Frances and Sarah are in good hands. According to the novel, it also asserts, “(She hugs her father tight.) Tell Mama I won’t forget nothing she taught me. Tell her I’ll be alright. And I’ll be strong Papa. I’ll be strong” (Lester 94). This demonstrates the courage and perseverance Emma possesses, even when she is being ripped away from her loving family. When she’s being sold, she keeps her head up and tells herself not to look defeated. Emma is very strong and will not let anything show her (very few) weaknesses. As demonstrated, this protagonist has positive characteristics based on what thirteen years of ups and downs she has gone through. Emma Henry is simply an
Emma's personality is largely shaped by the nature of her upbringing. Emma had no motherly figure guiding her as she grew up, due to the fact that her
Emma is preparing Harriet for society, she adopts the role of Harriet’s mentor to instruct her in life choices, which is not very difficult with Harriet, who is easily manipulated. Emma has another suitor in mind for Harriet, and her pride will not give in to any other option. This second suitor then turns his attentions to Emma, and she is horrified. Her purposes are being destroyed by others' autonomy. Emma is too ignorant to fully understand why Harriet and Mr. Elton do not want each other. She likes to take the credit
Emma Bovary allows herself to be destroyed by the people she encounters and her obsession with falling in love. Emma is not happy with herself and her relationship so she looks for other people to fill the void. Emma never really realizes that she is the root of all of the troubles in her life. If she were more in touch with reality, she would realize that she needs to work on herself before blaming her love interests for not being like the men that she has read about in the past. Emma has a very unrealistic perception of love. Emma is unable to fall in love with anyone because she will always be dissatisfied. She destroyed her own marriage before it even started because of her preconceived idea of love. Charles is absolutely in love with Emma and would do anything for her but she does not feel the same way about him due to her fairytale idea of love. It seems as if she is not capable of separating her real life romances from the romance novels that she read when during her time at the convent.