Emma And Clueless Analysis

The profound and satirical reflections of Georgian Society and postmodern America poignantly portrays Jane Austen’s novel ‘Emma’ and Amy Heckerling’s film, ‘Clueless’ respectively. The adjustments of social values and postures towards class and gender roles over the past two centuries gives insight by habituating the polished, idyllic country society of Highbury to the upper- expeditious-paced microcosm of modern Beverley Hills.

A prospect of fellowship that is reflected in both Emma and Clueless is the rigor of class and clique constructions. In Emma, one’s lifestyle and feeling of others is affected by social position. In Clueless, one is judged focused around image, prominence and wealth. Heckerling subverts the inflexible class refinements of Emma into the modernised school …show more content…
The values of stringent social hierarchy and the limits of perceived classes of the nineteenth century are provided here as an allusion. Austen criticises the values in Emma’s society which approves status based on birth and positioning within strict social propriety. This is elicited through Mr Elton, when aware of Emma’s plans to attach him to Harriet and conveys his incredulity through hyperbole: “I never thought of Miss Smith in the whole course of my existence, never cared if she were dead or alive” . He eagerly contradicts any thought of sentimental connection to a social mediocre, offering a satirical insight into the shallowness and firmness of Regency class teaching. Elton passes on comparable class awareness in his rhetorical inquiries towards Cher on “Why Tai? Do you not know who my father is?” A long angle shot captures the neon indication of a clown dwarfing Cher as she is relinquished in the carpark by Elton; a symbol of society's jest and objection to her endeavors to undermine a characterized framework of

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