« back to article

Discuss “Pride and Prejudice proves itself”

Anxious about finals? Is the Pittsburgh weather getting to you? Suffering from pre-holiday depression? You might be in need of something a little old-fashioned and a little gooey, with an unabashedly happy ending—in which case, the new Pride and Prejudice is right up your alley.

The classic comedy of mismatched lovers has been going strong ever since Jane Austen first published her novel in 1813. In the last decade, however, the story has been revisited a number of times—with a modern and humorous twist in Bridget Jones’ Diary, in the slightly misguided Bollywood incarnation Bride and Prejudice, and in the 1995 BBC miniseries, which starred Colin Firth as a wonderfully uptight Mr. Darcy and followed the book nearly line for line.

Austen...

Comments

Be heard

Name:
Required
Email:
Optional
Comment:

Comment guidelines

If you provide an email address, it will be displayed. This may make you more vulnerable to spammers.

HTML is not allowed. Paragraphs are automatically created by leaving a blank line. Links are created from URLs automatically.

Off-topic or inappropriate (e.g. obscene, libelous) comments are not permitted and will be removed.

Important: The Tartan provides these discussion boards to encourage discussion about the topics we report. The views and opinions expressed in these comments are those of their authors, and do not reflect the opinions of The Tartan.