on phone, doing make up and nails, listening to music and fixing skate boards one girl in the class has also had a nose job this shows how vain they are and how important looks are to them even though she is only in high school. Music is important as teenagers like it. The opening song “we’re the kids in America shows us that the kids have power by being in control, they have every thing they want due to wealth we know this because the first scene is set in the mall where Cher is buying lots of clothes and she also has a car. This shows wealth. The next song is “fashion girl”; this shows us Cher is fashionable.
Texts are cultural artefacts that reflect the values of their various societies. The two texts “Emma” by Jane Austin and “Clueless” by Amy Heckerling both use various techniques to discuss their relevant cultural values. Through the studies of the similarities of these two texts “Clueless” becomes a reflection of the past which is shown in “Emma”. In the introduction of the texts there is an extreme amount of detail that is discovered about the main Characters Emma and Cher. The film clueless begins with a quick sequence of shots showing Cher shopping, driving, at a party and spending time with her friends.
The author presents a flapper as someone who’s ears can be seen. This is not the case. It sounds as though the author has no specific feelings regarding the flappers, although one may think that she approves. She says that, although these girls are the complete opposite of what the old younger generation used to be, they are just as harmless and still with the same aim of a fun evening out. The automobile enabled people to do many things that were not previously possible in the 1920s: It freed Americans from their homes and neighborhoods to which they were confined It gave women more free time to do things, including travel and find a job The car become an area for people to perform, what a judge described, as “inappropriate” sex.
Amy Heckerling’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” has transformed a 19th century classic English novel into a teen flick romcom film of the 20th century entitled “Clueless”. Despite the vastly different historical settings and societal values of the two texts, Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless” still retains the essential values of the original text by adapting these values into a modern society of our time and a modern audience of our age. Comparatively through the themes of class and social structure and the attitudes towards love and marriage, a greater insight can be gained of the context in which it appropriates further enhanced by the use of satire and irony employed by both composers. “Emma” by Jane Austen was written in the Regency period of the 1800s; a time of inequality as it featured a wide gap between the rich and the poor while at the same time a rise in the merchant middle class. In response to this context, Austen tends to satirise the common source of power by creating a microcosmic world of a genteel community evolving round a “handsome, clever and rich” young woman who "seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence."
As the readers, we laugh at Josephine but also with her. For example, page 59-63 when Jacob Coote gives Josephine a lift home on his motorbike while Josie is in her best dress. The author describes the Italians as experts on gossip but she describes it in such a way that the readers find it humorous, which links to the theme of culture. Sarcasm is also used throughout the novel, mainly when Josie is talking to her friends. The use of sarcasm amuses readers and also is appropriate because they are teenagers.
Essay The book Emma by Jane Austen and the film Clueless by Amy Heckerling are two texts that are strongly influenced by their context and are an expression of their cultural values. This concept is highlighted through the time the texts were written in, differences in Emma and Clueless, themes, language techniques and film techniques. Time is a factor that will have impact on a text and therefore determine its context, thus this will express its cultural values. Emma was published in 1816 in England. The novel was written for a 19th century reading public, mainly gentry and middle class audience.
Emma Essay The values that shape the form and meaning of any text are reflections of their respective contexts. This notion is explored through the comparison of Jane Austen’s Emma (1815) and Amy Heckerling’s appropriation, Clueless (1995). While distinct parallels may be drawn between Clueless and Emma, Regency values of class, social mobility and courtship are altered in Clueless to reflect the liberal nature of 1990’s America. Austen’s Emma reflects the rigidity of social hierarchy with stringent notions of class determined by lineage and inheritance, which limits social mobility of individuals in Regency England. The contextual value of class as inherited status and wealth portrayed by the juxtaposition of the cumulative listing of the
In the House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, a unique style of writing is used to show various themes throughout the book. The abrupt and disconnected way Cisneros writes conveys a child-like mindset which contrasts the adult issues being discussed in order to show the theme of growing up too fast. Throughout the book, examples are presented to the readers of growing up too fast. Esperanza sees Sire and his girlfriend Lois. Often, she hears them “laughing late” with “beer cans” and such, and is warned by her momma, “Those girls are the ones that go into alleys”.
The girl’s interests are usually limited to make-up, hair, boys and shopping. Movies such as ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Clueless’ and television shows such as ‘Big Bang Theory’, ‘Home & Away’ and ‘Sex In The City” encourage the idea that teenage girls and women are ditzy, stupid and superficial. The movie Clueless (1995), for example, stared Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a rich teenager from Beverly Hills. She was blonde and beautiful, and enjoyed the "typical" teenage girl activities. Cher and her friends spent all their time shopping, doing makeovers and chasing after guys.
Reflecting back to her childhood, Kincaid shares her ideas about the American and European inhabitants. In this poetic style of writing, Kincaid grasps the reader's attention by vividly raising questions in our minds as she describes her own. The style she uses challenges the reader to look beyond the beauty of a place and explore the reality and truth behind that beauty. Kincaid begins the story with an outsider's point of view; a westerner expresses how wonderful Antigua is because of its Mill Reef Club right before Kincaid chimes in with the local's point of view. Two different opinions clash and leave the reader wondering, searching within oneself for answers.