A contrast between Austen's society and ours.
Date Submitted: 11/02/2003 10:44:54
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 4 pages (997 words)
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 4 pages (997 words)
IT'S A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED. . .
Do universal truths and values stand the test of time? This article will explore values raised in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, published almost 200 years ago in 1813, and compare them to those raised in the film Bridget Jones's Diary, based on the novel by Helen Fielding and directed by Sharon Maguire, in 2001.
Those who have read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice will find some familiar characters and elements in …
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…Austen's time? By taking a look through these two texts, Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones'Diary created almost two hundred years apart, values of each of the separate societies can be examined for both differences made through time and the ideas which have been kept.
When all is said and done, as the words of the song have it "Woman needs her man, man must have his mate, on that universal truth, you can rely."
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