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A 5 page paper which examines how these characters are handled by Austen in her novels and by filmmakers Douglas McGrath in his 1996 film adaptation of “Emma” and Roger Michell’s 1995 film version of “Persuasion.” No additional sources are used.
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who were looking for love and marriage to a socially suitable partner. Always lurking in the distance was a man of apparently impeccable breeding, who on the surface, appeared
to be the heroines perfect "Mr. Right." However, more often than not, these appearances were simply just that; and Austens ladies would have to learn the painful lesson that
looks can be quite deceiving. The novels of Jane Austen have always translated well to the screen, for they are costume dramas that enable the predominantly female audiences to
travel back in time to the nineteenth-century English countryside, where lords and ladies courted properly, but romance was never sacrificed for the sake of social convention. Emma, first published in
1816, was Jane Austens most whimsical tale and featured as its protagonist a socially conscious matchmaker, who throughout the course of the novel, discovers not simply what constitutes a good
and lasting match, but also how social prejudice can negatively and incorrectly influence value judgments. Frank Churchill is the stepson of Emmas former governess and is portrayed as a
pretentious social climber who took his late mothers more impressive surname so that he could travel in more illustrious circles. In the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important
supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knightley that enables Emma to make her own satisfying marital match, seldom speaks for himself. Instead, nearly
all of Churchills descriptions are left to the impressions of others. Frank Churchill has repeatedly snubbed his father, which is depicted as a conscious ignorance of his "duty to
pay this attention to his father" (Austen 132). Churchill would frequently promise to visit, but mysteriously and without explanation would not honor these promises. Emma, who was taken
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