SOCIAL CLASS AND THE BENNET FAMILY IN "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

Considering how long I have been a 팬 of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" and its numerous 텔레비전 and movie adaptations, I am surprised that I have never considered something about its heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and her family. Ever since I have been 읽기 numerous 기사 about the novel and its adaptations, I have noticed that many have labeled the Bennet family as members of the middle-class 또는 the upper middle-class in Regency England. And it finally occurred to me that many of these 팬 were in error.


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When I first heard that a new Pride and Prejudice film was in the works, I was both apprehensive and excited. I had seen every single film adaptation made of my 가장 좋아하는 Jane Austen book and considered the A&E version starring Colin Firth as Mr Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennett the end-all. As a miniseries, it was able to closely follow the book and not omit any of the wonderful parts that made the novel a classic. With a movie made for the big screen, important plot twists and scenes would have to be removed to fit in the allotted time. It was with slight trepidation that I...

from the Huffington Post:

I've published twenty 책 in genres from memoir to mystery but I never thought of doing an Austen mashup until I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

While I enjoyed Zombies at first because it was surprising and funny, eventually it started to feel like a one-note protest against all the decorous PBS Austen series and all the die-hard Austen 팬 around the world. Dude, forget carriages and bonnets, gimme brains!

Zombies reads like graffiti, which can be ugly 또는 beautiful depending on your point of view. 당신 see that 스플릿, 분할 on amazon.com, where half the reviewers give...