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    Emma Watson is a 27 year old British actress who has starred in movies like the Harry Potter series, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and most recently Beauty and the Beast. Not only is an amazing actress but she is a strong supporter of women's rights and equality. She spends most of her time, when she wasn’t being Hermione Granger, being a U.N. Women’s ambassador. She was appointed this position in the July of 2014. Emma started the #HeforShe campaign which was a gender equality movement that ended

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    novel, Emma. These romantic comedies posses similar people, social classes, and both stories end with the “matchmaker” having a self-realization. Emma takes place in nineteenth century England, while Clueless takes place in twentieth century California. Although the plots take place in different centuries, the overall theme of people belonging to different social classes remains the same. Each individual in Clueless corresponds to an individual in Emma. The “matchmaker” in Emma is Emma Woodhouse

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    Clueless (1995) stars Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz. Like Emma, she is rich and lives with her single father. Here she is only 15 and already has her own car (before she even has a license!) and spends most of her time with her best friend, Dionne. The Mr. Knightley character is played by her ex step-brother, Josh, played by Paul Rudd. The movie loosely follows a lot of Emma‘s plotlines. Cher hooks up two of her teachers and from there gets it into her head to be a matchmaker. She decides

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    Jane Austen's Emma Jane Austen does indeed present a picture of a community who look to each other for entertainment as well as support, and are content with their limited outlook. The story never leaves the close surroundings of Highbury and there is no desire to do so. When the party goes to Box Hill, away from Highbury, there is tension and the trip is not enjoyed. It is interesting to note that the three characters that come into Highbury, are those which have the potential to ruin

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    Emma Roskilly began as a humble Girl in a shack somewhere in Italy. Her family was known to participate in less than legal activities which left little room for this new soul to be able to make decisions which would be thought of us right, in modern society. When Emma was age seven, she began wandering around his local streets and found herself the victim of gang attacks on multiple occasions, unable to understand why they happened, he kept allowing them to happen. Thinking was his only solace

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    Two major ironic devices used in Emma are situational and dramatic irony. Situational irony takes a leading role in the plot of Emma. Emma, throughout the novel, have expectations on how Harriet's and her own love affairs will flow, but they always shape up in unexpected ways. One example is the relationship between Mr. Knightley and Emma; Emma has expected Knightley to be in love with Harriet, but it turns out that he actually loves Emma in chapter 39: ["]Tell me, then, have I no chance of ever

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    Emma and Frank Churchill Mr. Frank Churchill, a very fashionable and virile young man, who seems the perfect companion for Emma. In addition, both families are in hopes of the two young people getting together. Emma is excited about Frank’s arrival, and hearing his name, she enjoys the fantasy of being in love “Now, it so happened that in spite of Emma’s resolution of never marrying, there was something in the name, in the idea of Mr. Frank Churchill, which always interested her” (115). Nevertheless

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    Austen published Emma in a time where social, gender and economic inequality was the norm. Jane Austen novel has a notion that is written in a satire context in the term of how women in a society should be less than men.However, the protagonist Emma goes against what society tells her to be, she is a character that goes against the grain. Emma is a strong female character that advocates for other women to better themselves, and this is why there’s a case to classified Emma as a feminist novel

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    Emma Watson: A Pioneer In 21st Century Women’s Rights Emma Watson is an actress, model, humanitarian, and activist who is famous throughout the world. She is most widely recognized for her role in the Harry Potter series, where she played a young witch named Hermione Granger. Born Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson in Paris, France on April 15th, 1991 to parents Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. The family lived in Paris for the first five years of Emma’s life, her parents divorced when she was five

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    In Emma Jane Austen exposes the limitations of the role of women in her society. Examine Austen’s presentation of what is called in the novel, women’s usual occupations of eye, and hand, and mind. Emma – Role of Woman In Emma Jane Austen exposes the limitations of the role of women in her society. Examine Austen’s presentation of what is called in the novel, ‘women’s usual occupations of eye, and hand, and mind’. In Jane Austen’s society, the role of women was controlled by what was

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