『엠마』의 자아각성 주제의 변용: 맥그래스의「엠마」

This article compares and analyses Emma Woodhouse's self-awakening in a novel,『Emma』 with that in McGrath's film,『Emma』' Emma's social arrogancy, her class consciousness, and her excessively active imagination lead her to believe that she can control the destiny of others. This illusion, however, is shattered by her mistaken assumptions on the three men, E]ton, Frank Churchill, and George Knightley. She gets her awakening f개m the recognition of her misjudgments and misunderstandings of these three men, and Box Hill episode in which she disregards Miss Bates. However, the progress of Emma's self-awakening is weakened in『Emma』, as the film is focused mainly on the romance. First, a different type of heroine appears. Secondly, Jane is weakened and described briefly. Thirdly, the change that Knightley lets Emma's father move to his house instead of his moving to hers, brings the loss of the significances of the original moving scene in the text. And the rearrangement of the relationship between Emma and Harriet in the ending is not suggested in the film. Nonetheless, this film can be esteemed as a romantic comedy of high quality enough to compensate for the disadvantage that Emma's self-awakening is weakened. And this analysis can be meaningful in that it tries to widen the interdisciplinary study abd to give the present and current meaning to the nineteenth-century classic text.