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    Alex Escribano Professor Klingensmith 4 April 2016 ENGL Emma and Clueless Comparison Jane Austen’s Emma can be categorized as a bildungsroman, better known as a coming-of-age tale, in which the reader follows the title character as she comes to terms with her position in the world during the Regency period. However, looking beyond the titular character, one can look at Emma as a satirical work regarding the restrictions and conventions of 19th century society. This satirical element later went

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    Jane Fairfax plays a significant role as a rival towards Emma in terms of intelligence and beauty in the novel Emma by Jane Austen. Jane Fairfax is born to Mrs. Bates youngest daughter and Lieut. Fairfax. Jane’s father Lieut. Fairfax died and Jane was left with a widow mother who also died when Jane was three years old. After the death of Jane’s parents, Jane was took care by Colonel Campbell who was a good friend to Mr. Fairfax where Mr. Campbell believed that Mr. Fairfax has saved his life (p.128)

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    Term Paper in English 1 On Emma by Jane Austen In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Award of Degree of B.A [HONS.]ENGLISH Submitted by: Supervised by: Rashmi Priya Mrs. Suchi agarwal Amity Institute of English Studies and Research Amity University Uttar Pradesh India DECLARATION I Rashmi Priya student of B.A (Hons.) English of Amity Institute of English Studies and Research

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    Education in Emma: A Game of “Mother May I?” It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is the queen of depicting strong, independent heroines and dashing, empathetic heroes, as well as their witty interactions with one another. However, at their core, Austen’s novels are also about complex mother-daughter relationships. During the 1800s, the education that girls received was mainly geared towards running a household and finding wealthy husbands. As a result, mothers and governesses

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    into Hartfield after their marriage. In spite of the fact that Emma is unmistakably a flight from the usual and ordinary Austen 's depiction of women, the other female characters in the novel bring to light the challenges confronting ladies without monetary autonomy. Miss Bates, Jane Fairfax, and Harriet Smith represent three conceivable situations for the women who do not have high social status and position like Emma. Miss Bates never wedded and is reliant on her mother 's insignificant

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    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a science fiction novel that was presented to the reading world in 2011 by Ransom Riggs. This year the characters of Riggs’s novel made their way to the big screen under the direction of Tim Burton. While critics rave about the wonders of Burton’s skills to transform the novel into a believable reality, I have some other views. My views dig past the screen and break apart the struggles and decisions Burton made while directing. While I agree with Hoffman

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    ‘Miss Austen’s works may safely be recommended not only as among the most unexceptionable of their class, but as combing in an eminent degree, instruction with amusement, though without the direct effort at the former…….” In these lines Richard Whately describes the superior quality of Jane Austen, the writer. In ‘A Room Of One’s Own’ Woolf emphasis that William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are the best dramatist and novelist respectively because of the

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    Austen’s novel Emma. Immediately Poovey states her thesis which does away with a presentism reading and discusses social/moral issues in the era of Jane Austen also known as the Regency era. Poovey has a conversational element to her writing, which makes her more complex ideas easier to digest in comparison to a more formal structure which would damage the essays efficiency to communicate. That said, even though her thesis is clean and comprehensible it never exclaims that she will be using Emma and her

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    or fortune than oneself. This essay will discuss how the novel’s Emma and Wuthering Heights demonstrate that an individual who marries an individual with equal social standing and fortune are more likely to live a more safe and comfortable life. Throughout the novel Emma by Jane Austen, Emma is a naïve young woman who has everything that she could ever want to be able to live a comfortable and fulfilling lifestyle. However, Emma is stricken with boredom and a overwhelming feeling of lacking a purpose

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    As in all of Austen’s novels, courtship and marriage play major roles in “Emma.” The entire novel is structured around various courtships and romantic connections, from Harriet and Robert Martin to Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill to Emma and Mr. Knightley. All of the conflicts in the novel also revolve around this topic, particularly in terms of characters striving to find appropriate matches. In this way, Austen presents marriage as a fundamental aspect of society during the time period. While

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