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    Throughout Memento there are a multiplicity of instances in which manipulation occurs. The audience sees a plethora of people manipulating Leonard such as Teddy, Natalie and Burt. The audience generally associates these individuals as the main manipulators in Memento, however that Christopher Nolan and Leonard, respectively, manipulate the audience and themselves far more than anyone else. Leonard is seen manipulating himself several times throughout Memento. One of the ways he does this is through

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    Theme of Transformation in Emma

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    Emma also transforms into a proper woman through correcting her original neglect. Trollope states that “[i]n every passage of the book she is in fault for some folly, some vanity, some ignorance, or indeed for some meanness” (7)19. Because of her ignorance toward attitudes of her neighbors, Emma interferes through their lives in a way that makes them unhappy, for “she had often been negligent” (Austen 359)20. Mr. Knightley predicts the outcome of Emma’s plans in the beginning of the novel when he

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    Jane Austen is an author who sticks to her own established tropes across many of her novels. Time and time again one can encounter the same sorts of characters and similar situations in her novel. But Mansfield Park and Emma are two novels that tend to stand out against Austen’s others – and what makes them stand out is not so much a departure from her pre-established tropes, but a deeper insight into them. In examining these two novels, one might think that the only similarity between them is the

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    Persuasion By Jane Austen

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    collection is that the concept of freedom and selfishness is often associated with the unsympathetic characters. Emma for instance has been ‘doing just what she liked’ for most of her existence (1). These traits could also be adapted to many other characters in the novel, but to emphasize on one individual disdainfully would be Elizabeth Elliot, Anne’s older sister. She is depicted in a very Emma like

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    who existed amongst other writers such as Henry Fielding (author of Tom Jones) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein), in a time called the Georgian Era. Jane Austen works include Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Juvenilia, Mansfield Park, Emma and Sense and Sensibility. Although Jane Austen has gifted to the world many great works, it is recorded on Bio.com that “her work did not become popular until after 1869 and during her life her works were published anonymously" (see Bio.com ; http://www

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    The Bildungsroman Genre Essay

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    ..... 2- TWO BILDUNGSROMAN NOVELS............................................................................. 3.1- Great Expectations..................................................................................................... 3.2- Emma...........................................................................................................................

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    Emma advises the innocent Harriet in virtually all things, including the people with whom she should interact. She suggests that Harriet not spend time with the Martins, a local family of farmers whose son, Robert, is interested in Harriet. Instead, Emma plans to play matchmaker for Harriet and Mr. Elton, the vicar of the church in Highbury. Emma seems to have some success in her attempts to bring together Harriet Smith and

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    Capturing Real Life in Emma   Jane Austen deliberately confined herself to the realistic portrayal of a segment of contemporary English life-upper middle-class society. The heroine, Emma Woodhouse, lives on her father's estate at Hartfield which is in effect an adjunct of the village of Highbury 'in spite of its separate lawns and shrubberies'. Mr. Weston's estate of Randals is in the parish of Highbury, and Mr. Knightley's Donwell Abbey is situated in the neighbouring parish, within comfortable

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    Jane Austen’s Emma follows the life of an overindulged, upper class young woman who, after enduring a crisis brought on by her own pride, is transformed from callow and vain, to a state of mental and emotional maturity. On first reading, the audience may perceive Emma’s actions as a repression of feelings, but upon closer inspection one can see that she is not suppressing her emotions but simply does not have the level of self-awareness that would allow her to clarify the difference between right

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    Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition and has lived twenty-one years and has very little stress in her life. But what if Emma was taken from her Georgian-Regency England and placed in the Twentieth century; would she be just as accomplished or would she just be a silly little girl. Jane Austin herself stated that “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”. The narrator of the book Emma also describes her as being spoiled

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