Pride and Prejudice

 Thinking activity - Pride and prejudice

Hello readers, I am going to write about a Pride and prejudice novel in this blog. This activity gave by Yesha madam.

 

                                    

 "I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London . . . The Advertisement is in our paper to day for the first time . . . ."

 Pride and prejudice Romantic Novel was written by JANE AUSTEN in October 1796 at the age of 20. She completed it in August 1797, just 10 months later. Over 200 years after its published. It the first published in 1813. This novel is based on a true love story. there were many different types of characters.

1 ) Which version of the novel is more appealing? Novel or film ( adaptation )? Why?

When we compare the real novel and the adaptations and also the movies which was also based on the story of the novel. When we read the novel it bored us but when we watch the movies we all are very excited to watch it. The written novel and books are always time-consuming but the movies are short and it also understands easily. The benefit of film adaptation is also helping full for those peoples which were not studied. 

Jane Austen's iconic novel Pride And Prejudice has been adapted to movies and TV shows many times. These are the best adaptations of the book!

                                     

Pride and prejudice (2003)

In this movie, the action takes place in Utah, with Elizabeth Bennet portrayed as a career-driven woman who dreams of becoming a writer and Mr. Darcy as a successful businessman. The movie isn't made to be taken seriously and is more a comedy than a faithful retelling of an epic love story. The rating isn't great, but it's still a fun movie to play on a Sunday afternoon.

Pride and prejudice (1940)

                                                 

There have been so many Pride And Prejudice films since, but this was the first time it appeared for mainstream movie audiences. Far from being accurate where history is concerned, this movie is a fun and light-hearted adaptation of the beloved novel that paved the way for all the others that followed. If this movie hadn't been made, the beloved adaptations of 1995 and 2005 likely wouldn't exist.

Pride and prejudice (2005)

                                          

The Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden adaptation! For many younger generations, this was the Pride And Prejudice movie that got them into Austen. And for good reason - the cinematography and soundtrack of the movie are stunning. And even though the movie takes quite a few liberties with story and dialogue, it's still a beautiful piece of art, portraying the tension and chemistry between Darcy and Elizabeth in a unique and captivating way. It's one of the most quotable versions of pride and prejudice to date.

2). character of Elizabeth

Elizabeth Bennet is the central character of the novel ‘’ Pride and Prejudice’’. She is the second daughter of Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet and the most intelligent and sensible girl. Elizabeth is the protagonist of the pride and prejudice novel. And one of the most well-known female character in English Literature. Her personality, her attitude, and her development throughout the novel bring together, the story and all the other characters. The novel is concerned with pride and prejudice and she and Darcy are the main players.

When Elizabeth first meets Mr. Darcy, she sees him as a proud man, and she has good reason to dislike him, but later on, she feels that Darcy was not a proud man. Her honesty, virtue and nonsense, and bad behavior. Her realization of Darcy’s goodness finally triumphs over her initial prejudice against him.

Elizabeth is her father’s favorite daughter and she always shares everything with her father. She shares with her father about her feelings with Darcy because she can’t betray her family.

Elizabeth likes to laugh at people, including herself. She is always interesting to listen to and always ready to laugh at foolishness. Elizabeth's sense of the difference between the wise and foolish is very good.

In spite of her mistake in misjudging Wickham and Darcy, Elizabeth is usually right about people. For example, she quickly identifies Mr. Collins as a fool and Lady Catherine as a tyrant. This ability to recognize people leads her forward sometimes.

At first impression, she was wrong about Darcy and Wickham but afterwards, he comes to know about their real personality. She realizes the mistake of her initial prejudice against Darcy. And they get married at the end of the play.

3). character of Mr. DARCY

Darcy is the hero of the novel. He marries the heroine of the novel Elizabeth. When Elizabeth first meets Mr. Darcy, she finds him to be proud and rude. Because at the dance party he refused to dance with Elizabeth. But later on, he is attracted to Elizabeth, despite the fact that she belongs to a poor family, and he proposes to her. But she refused his proposal.

Darcy is a well-educated, cultured young man. He does not socialize with poor people. He thinks that he is qualified and he can judge other people. Because he is very self-centered. Under the influence of his love for Elizabeth, Darcy learns to be polite and unselfish. He sacrifices his own pride and realizes that Elizabeth’s contribution in improving his character is the greatest.

4). Give illustrations of the society of that time.

In the novel of Jane Austen's ‘’Pride and Prejudice’’ on that time women have married and also it is her work to marry someone and settled with her husband. All society believed in that type of rule. That’s why Mrs. Bennet was very worried about her daughter's marriage in Pride and Prejudice.

And also at that time the peoples always see the class and standards for marriages. In this novel, Austen writes down the thinking of that time's people and how they were thinking.

5). If you were a director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of the movie?

The movie Pride and prejudice is the best and perfect. but according to me if I was the director or screenplay writer of this movie I do some changes in this movie. I would like to change the movie scenes which were not matched with the real written novel and also some dialogues, places, and the character's behaviors and manners. and also I would like to change the freedom of women.

6). Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?

Here I select some actors and actresses for the characters of this novel.

ELIZABETH-Dipika Padukone

MR.DARCY-Ranvir Singh

MR.BINGLEY-Sidharth malhotra

JANE- Kiara Advani 

MR.COLLINS- Arjun Kapoor 

WICKHAM-Ishaan Kapoor

'' The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive''.

 7). Write a note on a scene you liked the most.

The full movie was very interesting and it was also made very beautifully. But in the movie, some scenes touched my heart.                                       

# Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr.Darcy 

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Everybody knows the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. But the chapter ends with a truth equally acknowledged about Mrs. Bennet, who has five daughters in want of husbands: "The business of her life was to get her daughters married."

Romance seems so urgent and delightful in Austen because marriage is a business, and her characters cannot help treating it as a pleasure. Pride and Prejudice are the best of her novels because its romance involves two people who were born to be in love, and care not about business, pleasure, or each other. It is frustrating enough when one person refuses to fall in love, but when both refuse, we cannot rest until they kiss.

8). Compare the narrative strategy of novels and Movies.

In the novel, there was writer showed us the dialogue and she saw our character's nature by only writing the novel without any scenes and clips of videos.

Then we talk about the movie in the movie there were characters were played their role very cleverly and also in comparison to the novel in that we saw many differences like the movie starting dialogues characters' expressions and their dialogue.