In Comparing the Two Texts You Will Have Become Aware of How the Contexts of Texts Shaped Their Form and Meaning. of More Interest, Perhaps, Is a Comparison of the Values Associated with Each Text.
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Contexts in which texts are created shape the meaning and interpretation of individual writings and can often portray parallel concepts. Jane Austen’s Elizabethan novel Emma (1815) and Amy Heckerling’s cinematic adaptation, Clueless, (1990) both exemplify the thematic concerns of the complexity of relationships, self-realisation and the roles of women. Heckerling transforms a 200 year old story to suit current audiences through a recreation of the characters, language and context; despite this, presents parallel ideas. Heckerling has elegantly restructured these features from the original text, in order to be suitable for the teenage genre and create a teen comedy film. Austen’s classic novel provides a humorous interpretation on the 19th century social conventions through an ironic approach. Heckerling reshapes Austen’s work to appeal to a modern audience through the film medium.
Austen and Heckerling convey the importance of marrying or dating people of comparable class and wealth, in order to remain in the peak of the social standing. Through Mr Knightley dialogue’s “You have made her too tall”, (Chapter 6) displays how Mr Knightley continuously pinpoints Emma’s faults and disagrees to the company given to Harriet, as her family background is unknown to anyone in the town. The fact that Emma constantly tried to match Mr Elton and Harriet, who belong to different parts of the social ranking, signifies that she wished to break the social barriers of the time. Similarly, in Clueless, through the use of colloquialism, Cher comments with a forthright tone that “no respectable girl” should date a “loadie”, emphasizing that only socially similar people should romantically engage. Similarly, in Jane Austen’s contextual period, marriage was not for love and was considered as primarily as a business arrangement. Through the use of pathos in “A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter,”...
Austen and Heckerling convey the importance of marrying or dating people of comparable class and wealth, in order to remain in the peak of the social standing. Through Mr Knightley dialogue’s “You have made her too tall”, (Chapter 6) displays how Mr Knightley continuously pinpoints Emma’s faults and disagrees to the company given to Harriet, as her family background is unknown to anyone in the town. The fact that Emma constantly tried to match Mr Elton and Harriet, who belong to different parts of the social ranking, signifies that she wished to break the social barriers of the time. Similarly, in Clueless, through the use of colloquialism, Cher comments with a forthright tone that “no respectable girl” should date a “loadie”, emphasizing that only socially similar people should romantically engage. Similarly, in Jane Austen’s contextual period, marriage was not for love and was considered as primarily as a business arrangement. Through the use of pathos in “A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter,”...