Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. ... This cleverly fits into the cliché of modernity as he represents the homosexual male stereotype present in modern imagination. ... Clueless can be viewed as a humourous indictment of modern society while Emma is also a humourous indictment of Austen's society. ... From this, the difference in the film technique, such as Murray's use of language "a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. ... " Modern readers know that this is simply a convention, and accept it as such. ... The women are often the comfort zone for other women, not only as regards to Jane Eyre...

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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages.... Austen's treatment of these concepts has unarguably contributed to the resonance of her novels in modern society. Examining the popularity of Pride and Prejudice today, it is clear that the ideas Austen raised then are, though found in different contexts, still greatly relevant to the modern world. ...

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