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    Analyzing character development in Austen’s and Wilde's Emma
    (UMT, Lahore, 2024) Harim Fatima
    This dissertation provides a comparative analysis of character development in Jane Austen's novel Emma and Autumn de Wilde's 2020 film adaptation Emma, how Wilde portrays these characters on screen and how these characters have been transformed from the 19th century to the contemporary world has been explored by using Linda Hutcheon's adaptation theory as a framework. Hutcheon's adaptation theory emphasizes on the relationship between the source text and its secondary form in any medium. The study focuses on the chosen film in relation to its source text. The focal point of this dissertation is to explore how the essence of Jane Austen’s original creation is preserved in the making of contemporary Emma Woodhouse. This research inspects various elements such as visual techniques which include all kinds of cinematics, narrative techniques, and also portrayals of characters to understand the variation of character development both in text and film. By comparing the novel’s depiction of Emma’s journey towards social understanding and self-awareness with film, the research reveals the forms in which cinematic conventions influence the portrayal of characters. This thesis also examines invented scenes which are there to show characters more comical than the actual novel and previous adaptations, the dialogue wording, and the narrative shift. Wilde's adaptation is more strongly set on entertainment than GP or KB films.