The novel contains immense paragraphs of description which deal with the feelings and situations of each character in thorough detail. ... Due to the form of the text, (i.e. it is a film) formally structured sentences and verbal language are not as imperative as they are in the novel Emma. ... Austen's Emma is in the form of a novel while Heckerling's Clueless is a cinematic production (a film). ... A novel such as Emma leaves it to the initiative of the audience to take note and remember these specific events, places and objects, leading each responder to create their own meaning ...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Emma is a novel written in comical tone about a young snobbish woman named Emma who develops into someone who is capable of feelings and love, and soon finds her destiny in marriage. ... Mel notes that as much as they love each other, if they were all married to someone else, it would make no difference in their lives; one empty person is as good as another. ... During the entire novel the meaning of marriage seems to be thrown around as if it should have no significance in anyones life whatsoever. ...

• Word Count: 664
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

George Knightley is the only character in the book who openly sees Emma for who she really is, and in this regard "he acts as a stand-in for Austen's and the reader's judgments of Emma- (spark notes). Emma is so busy trying to match people up, mainly Harriet Smith, that she doesn't realize that while she claims she will never fall into the temptations of love, she will in fact succumb to them, and marry by the end of the novel. Emma's blindness to what is going on around her becomes evident in chapter 49 of the novel. ... While this is not the only chapter of the novel that...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1 Mr Dashwood and his family live in an estate at Norland Park. ...

• Word Count: 11136
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School