Bridget Jones is a chain-smoker and a hard-drinker. She is messy, slightly overweight and, even worse, she is still single. Clumsy Bridget spends her time downing drinks with her crazy single friends and strolling around the office with her little skirt. Helen Fielding´s modern novel opens the diary of a British single woman who is desperately looking for “Mr. Right” in a world of “emotional fuckwittages”. Quite the contrary is Elizabeth Bennet, the young heroine in Jane Austen´s most famous 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.
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. In fact, there are about 200 years between both works but they are indeed comparable...
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The stolen Story: Characters and the Plot
3. Heroes and their Antagonists: The Presentation of Men
3.1 Darcy - The Hero
3.2 Cleaver and Wickham - The Bastards
4. Elizabeth Jones meets Bridget Bennet
4.1 Fine Eyes and Size 12
4.2 The Lack of Education
4.3 Self-confidence meets Clumsiness
5. The Role of the Family
6. Different Time, Different Style
6.1 Narrative Mode
6.2 Language
6.3 The Change of the Novel: From Metaphors of Love to cheeky Chicklit
7. The Importance of Coupledom and Marriage
7.1 Spinsters, Bachelors, Singletons and Social Pressure
7.1.1 Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
7.2 Marriage - Material in the 19th and 20th Century
7.3 Superficiality - The Importance of Beauty
8. Bridget Jones - A top Post-Modernist and a Post-Feminist
9. Conclusion
10. List of Sources
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