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Pride & Prejudice

Introduction

"Pride and Prejudice" is a romantic novel written by the famous author Jane Austin. It was first published in 1813 in the location of the United Kingdom. With the publicity of this book, several movie adaptations were made to illustrate how the characters in the book would appear on the television screen. The movie version that is being compared to the book is the adaption directed by Joe Wright and produced in 2005. The main characters of the movie are Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, and Rosamund Pike. Throughout this essay, several themes will be compared of the book and the movie in which they are found similar (Morrison, 2005).

The story is about a young girl called Elizabeth Bennett who lives in England. She is an independent and assertive girl who dreams of what most women dream of during that time; a wealthy man and being the wife of a wealthy man. Some of the changes in the movie include minimization of the act where Elizabeth visits Rosings Park, Hunsford Parsonage, Peberley. Also the movie does not include various supporting cast including the Hurst family, Maria Lucas, the Phillips, the gardener's children, and many military officers as well as townspeople. All in all, the movie and the book share five crucial themes. The importance of environment and upbringing development of young people's character and morality is termed as a major theme.

The main theme that was not discussed in the film with respect to the novel is that the theme of wealthy arrogance was not well discussed throughout the movie (Mary, 2012).

Discussion

Love themes

The theme of love that was discussed in the film which supported the novel was the attraction and love created due to wealth in different characters of the novel. However, the main characters show the definition of true love. The love due to wealth was showed by the intentions of Elizabeth's sisters which pushed Elizabeth to marry the wealthy man in order to have a comfortable live. Furthermore, the mother of Elizabeth also encouraged her daughter to seduce or attract a wealthy gentleman. The true love that was demonstrated by Elizabeth and Darcy showed love based on true feelings and attraction and was not related with poverty and wealth difference between Darcy and Elizabeth. This true love forced both to conceal their feelings (Thornton, 2012).

Love & Marriage

In Pride and Prejudice, the recognition and admitting love for one another had been prevented by Darcy's prejudice and Elizabeth's Pride. The first main theme of discussion is the love and marriage theme. In the romantic novel, love is seen as not a critical aspect of marriage. This was mainly due to the fact that during Jane Austen's time period, the feeling of love was often seen sacrificed in marriage. In the current world, most marriage is seen on lust that fades or as an economic necessity. Within the storyline, romance is a privilege that the citizens have to live without and that according to their ...