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An 8 page paper which compares and contrasts “Pride and Prejudice” and “Bridget Jones’ Diary” as they involve the themes presented by Jane Austen in her novel. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: JR7_RAjdiary.rtf
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by Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice." In all honesty, this is not just a simple claim, but a truth that the author does not deny. The author of "Bridget Jones
Diary," Helen Fielding, has, over and over, admitted that the story is taken largely from the classic Austen story, stating that she has "pillaged her plot from Pride and Prejudice"
(Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Feilding). She also noted that the reason for using such a plot is that "Theres several hundred years of market testing on that plot" (Van
Boven 82). While the story of Bridget Jones is clearly not the story of Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice there are many basic themes that are the same as they
relate to the characters, presenting us with a story in Jones diary that is incredibly reminiscent of the timeless themes in Pride and Prejudice. The following paper first examines the
two stories separately and then compares and contrasts the themes. Pride and Prejudice In the story of Pride and Prejudice we have Elizabeth who is one of several daughters.
She is an eligible young woman and meets one of the leading males, Darcy, at a party where she instantly dislikes him because he has made some subtly due comment
about her. She immediately sees him as rude, arrogant, and prideful. The entire story is essentially based around this attitude as Darcy slowly warms to her, despite his prejudice against
her social position in life which is lower than his. Meanwhile Elizabeth believes a different man, Wickham, to be a noble and worthy man. She believes him to be the
true image of the reserved, intelligent, and noble man. By the end of the novel we see that Elizabeth was just as clouded by pride and prejudice as Darcy.
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