A Tale of Two Cities
In both the novel Emma by Jane Austen and the movie Clueless written and directed by Amy Heckerling, the main characters deceive themselves through their own arrogance. In Emma, the title character Emma Woodhouse foolishly thinks that she can manage the life of other characters but ultimately learns the reality of her self-delusion. Similarly, in Clueless, the main character Cher Horowitz sets out to also manage the lives of others, and she too is not as successful as she believes herself to be. Both of the main characters, Emma and Cher, are spoiled, high-class snobs who after undergoing a crisis brought on by their own haughtiness and repression of their feelings, transform themselves from a state of shallowness to one of mental and emotional maturity. Emma’s arrogance leads her to micromanage the lives of others because she feels that she is best for the job even though all of her interference backfires. Emma decides, for example, that Harriet Smith’s acquaintances are not good enough for the girl. She believes that Harriet's "soft blue eyes should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connections"(Austen 42), and that the friends Harriet has already made were "unworthy of her" and "causing her harm". S
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Approximate Word count = 1027
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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