Analysis Of Bride And Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a novel anonymously published in 1813 and is based on Jane Austen’s idea of the strict class prejudice and values during the regency period. Jane Austen’s intent of Pride and Prejudice was to respectively satirise the purely economic, utilitarian motives for marriage as well as the societal constraints which leave women with no choice but to marry. In doing so the themes of marriage and class are developed throughout the novel. The modern adaptation, Bride and Prejudice to a large extent minimises and trivialises Jane Austen’s original intent through the altering of societal values, the representation of Mr Collins and his proposal to Elizabeth, and the lose retelling of Mr Wickham’s betrayals in her novel, Pride and Prejudice.

Gurinder Chadha, with her modern adaptation Bride and Prejudice has minimised Austen’s original intent to a large extent though the altering of societal values and changing the context in which Austen purposely selected through the theme of social class. Pride and Prejudice’s intent is to influencing the reader of the period of

Bride and Prejudice embraces the same standpoint on relationships however has been altered and adapted to the 21st Century. Bride and Prejudice has minimised Austen’s intent of the irony of financial marriage through the implementation of cultural marriage. The character of Mr Collins in Austen’s novel exclaims to Elizabeth that “my situation in life, my connections with the family of de Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further consideration.” (p104) Austen use of dramatic irony displays Mr Collins perceiving Elizabeth is at loss whilst Elizabeth in fact has no interest in Mr Collins whatsoever. The descriptive language displays the irony of Austen’s original intent through the contradictory ideas of Mr Collins and Elizabeth. Bride and