Comparing Emma and Clueless (Transformation)

The amalgamation of Emma, written by Jane Austin in the context of England in 1815, with the movie Clueless, directed by Amy Heckerling and set in the Beverly Hills context of 1995, results in transformations. These transformations indicate the difference in style between a written text and a movie yet similarities in context such as social setting and entertainment must be acknowledged. The contexts of Emma still exist in Clueless but in a different form. It was …

…accompanying these shots, generates a sense of wild freedom and lack of restriction that bound women in Austen's context. The distinguishing of the different text types between Emma and Clueless undoubtedly reveals the similarities in context of social setting and entertainment between the two. Transformation from Emma into Clueless is achieved effortlessly through characters and themes. Emma and Clueless unquestionably clarify the understanding that change is a process, the passage from one position to another.