Despite the shift in context from 19th century England to late 20th century Beverly Hills, Austen’s main plot and ideas have been retained to a great degree. However, the different ways in which these ideas are portrayed in Clueless, as well as the variations from Emma’s plot, provide new insights into both contexts and hence emphasises the contextual influences that cause the changes. Through the consideration of Austen’s 19th century context we gain a deeper understanding of the impact of class attitudes on people’s behaviour and relationships. Social hierarchies are addressed through Mr Elton’s denial of Harriet and the corresponding action of Elton’s rejection of Tai. The character Mr Elton represents the class based attitudes of 19th Century England when he claims that “everyone has their own level”.
“Appropriation study of texts is interesting because the changing values and attitudes of particular time periods can be observed.” Evaluate this opinion in relation to the Jane Austen’s novel, Emma, and Amy Heckerling’s film, Clueless. In your response make detailed references to both texts. 3. In comparing your TWO texts you will have become aware of how the contexts of the texts have shaped their form and meaning. Of more interest, perhaps, is a comparison of the values associated with each text.
He developed Lenina's gnawing problem to heal slowly but surely as she struggles to conform to the influences of her society, which she has known since "birth." Although these mannerisms and ideas that she has had rooted in her mind have had a significant influence on her development as a person, she was still able to convey who she was meant to be as an individual. This set a mood of rebellion and tones of satisfaction and success at the end of the novel. However, at the beginning of the novel, the set tone is dull and emotionless. To have the novel end with such a bright tone and mood enables the audience to see and feel how Huxley wanted to portray Lenina as a human being and not another robotic entity of a dreary utopian
Vianne’s nomadic lifestyle is challenged when she arrives in the tranquil French village, where she stands out as an individual. This is evident in the contrasting bright red cloak she and Annouk wear, against the monotonously dark clothing of the villagers. However due to her developing friendships with the villagers and opportunities they offer her, when the north wind speaks once again of another physical journey that lays ahead, she rejects it and so the north wind’s journey must be taken “by someone else… next time”. This is depicted at the end of the film with a low-angle shot of Vianne to show that she is now in control of her life. Followed by a tracking shot of her mother’s ashes being carried away by the north wind, symbolise a complete rejection of a previous lifestyle and start of a new one.
North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the working class, between conflicting views of Mr. Thornton, and even between her conflicting views of her own intelligence.1 In almost all cases, Margaret does not so much choose sides as acknowledge mutually dependent and beneficial relationships. The ending of the novel, in which a proposal to loan money to a newly benevolent Mr. Thornton manifests the confluence of her compassion and her business sense, binds these seemingly dichotomous elements together. However, it also addresses a change of values and reasoning that otherwise would be left hanging by the death of Mr. Hale. Mr. Hale’s decision to leave the church due to “painful, miserable doubts” (35)2 concerning church doctrine constitutes the one event in the novel in which a sympathetic character directly chooses to avoid discourse on a dichotomous relationship: unlike characters confronting issues of labor relations or personal integrity, he refuses to foster discussion or challenge authority figures on these unspecified religious issues. A key insight into Mr. Hale’s reasoning is found during his discussion with Margaret and Higgins, when he states that “your Union in itself would be beautiful, glorious, —it would be Christianity in itself—if it were but for an end which affected the good of all, instead of that of merely one class as opposed to another” (229).
Shades Of Grey “The imaginary world of the novel helps the reader to understand the authors intentions” The imaginary world of a novel helps a reader to understand the authors intention is a point that is very well shown in the novel “Shades of Grey” written by Jasper Fforde. This novel is a complete and utterly different world than our own. In the world portrayed in the novel lives are determined by a persons colour perception. There is a social hierarchy and the higher up you are in the hierarchy then the better your life is and the more perks you receive. By reading this novel, the author’s intention is to challenge us, the reader, to evaluate our current world and make comparisons to theirs.
Politicians were workmen worthy of their hire. However, even if altruistic disinterest was discarded as impractical, the concept of virtue was democratized. The new government of the early 19th century carried forward the belief that “Without virtue and self sacrifice the republic would fall apart.” The second great awakening in the first half of the 19th century sought to establish morality on a broad scale. Being good was no longer the special province of the aristocracy. Good governance depended upon it.
Through any and every writing, an author has a point hidden within literary elements. With literary elements authors develop a style to their writing to prove the point they intended from the beginning. There are many various literary elements to make up a rhetorical situation, to develop a side of ideas, some very commonly used in especially rhetorical situations. Like allusion, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, hypophora, and commonly simile. Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau speak of and develop similar government opinions and points, through their interpretations of Civil Disobedience through literary elements; they prove similar points of civil disobedience but with their own style of writing and use of rhetorical devices.
Situation ethics is a teleological, relative ethical theory which is based on love. The theory uses motive and states that any rules can be bended if love is best served. Situation ethics is most commonly assioated with philosopher such as Jopseph Fletcher USA and JAT Robinson UK who developed it in the 1960s. In the 20th century the USA & UK were facing some drastic changes which involved women occupying a place in the workforce, secularisation, Vietnam war, civil rights movement and hippy culture. People were moving away from the church (legalism) and more towards antonmianism.
Of Education by John Milton and An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen by Bathsua Makin both call for the reform of education. However, even though both authors were influenced by John Amos Comenius, agreed that education is what God wants, that it is important, and that the base of education should start with the learning of languages, the reason why they wrote their pieces and approach they take to the reform of education are completely different; Milton focuses on “how” to educate men and Makin focuses on “why” to educate women. Theses similarities and differences spawn from the structure and culture of the society they both lived in. John Milton and Bathsua Makin both lived during the times of James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth, and Charles II. James I did not largely affect Milton and Makin’s lives.