first impression quotes pride and prejudice

One can hardly believe that there can be found any parallels between Bridget Jones´s Diary and the probably most romantic British novel, Pride and Prejudice.

She is one of 5 daughters, polite, sophisticated, selfless and, due to her education, she would never compromise herself in public like Bridget always does. Quite the contrary is Elizabeth Bennet, the young heroine in Jane Austen´s most famous novel Pride and Prejudice. Right” in a world of “emotional fuckwittages”. Helen Fielding´s modern novel opens the diary of a British single woman who is desperately looking for “Mr. Clumsy Bridget spends her time downing drinks with her crazy single friends and strolling around the office with her little skirt. She is messy, slightly overweight and, even worse, she is still single. Bridget Jones - A top Post-Modernist and a Post-Feministīridget Jones is a chain-smoker and a hard-drinker. The Importance of Coupledom and Marriageħ.1 Spinsters, Bachelors, Singletons and Social Pressureħ.1.1 Men are from Mars, Women are from Venusħ.2 Marriage - Material in the 19th and 20th Centuryħ.3 Superficiality - The Importance of BeautyĨ. Heroes and their Antagonists: The Presentation of MenĦ.3 The Change of the Novel: From Metaphors of Love to cheeky Chicklitħ. The stolen Story: Characters and the Plotģ.

First impression quotes pride and prejudice