Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Sharon Maguire’s Bridget Jone’s Diary both portray a microcosm of the beliefs and values of a particular class of British society. ...
In Pride and Prejudice, Austen mainly deals with middle and higher-class society. ... Not unlike Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jone’s Diary also only concentrates on a fragment of its society. As Austen focuses on the higher classes of nineteenth century, Bridget Jone’s Diary centers around the life of a 30-something single British woman as she struggles with her career, relationships, friends and family in modern day twenty-first century. Although in Bridget Jone’s Diary, money is not such a significant factor, it is like Austen’s society steeped in materialism but it furthermore illustrates the importance of body image. As Bridget states, reluctantly,
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices…completely exhausted by entire day of date-preparation. ...
Bridget’s social status was not whether she was rich or poor but rather whether she was married, dating or single.
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