Emma
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Both Emma in Jane Austen's Emma and Cher in Amy Heckerling's Clueless portray symbolical manifestations and representational products of their social environment. Each of their social contexts are established by the composers' distinctions and parallels of values, ethics, settings and mediums used.
In observing Jane Austen's Emma and Amy Heckerling's Clueless one if forced to observe the paralleled values in both texts. These values assist in confirming the social, historical and cultural contexts within both texts.
A prominent binary in establishing disparate contexts within Emma and Clueless is that of 'propriety' against 'equality and expression'. Propriety is a principle issue within Jane Austen's social context of Emma, the correctness and admiration towards 'wealth' in 1816 is very much observed. This propriety is sustained by the somewhat hierarchal features that the town of Highbury possesses. "The Woodhouses held a high place" within the 19th century social context, superior to that of Ms. Bates, Harriet and Mrs Weston, all of whom possessed a lower fortune. Mr Knightley's perception of Mrs...