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Comparing Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice And Zombies

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As we know, Jane Austen’s humorous yet profound Pride and Prejudice is based on five sisters during the Georgian Era. The main character Elizabeth finds love after little bit of soul searching and getting past her prejudice of Mr.Darcy. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was adapted from the 2009 novel. Author Seth Grahame Smith inserted battle scenes with the undead from passages in Austen’s novel. According to L.V. Anderson, “ Such a fantastical take on the literary classic is as outrageous as it sounds: It’s a film that reimagines the Bennet sisters as accomplished zombie-fighting warriors and invents a geopolitical backstory about how the plague of zombie-ism came to afflict Regency-era England.” Even with the obvious changes and revamping, the movie still stays true to Austen’s original vision. There are apparent differences hence the title Pride and Prejudice AND Zombies.

There are many differences when it comes to the movie and the book. For one, it's the zombies. An example would be scenes were Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy, and Jane are beheading many bodies of the undeceased. Another contrast would be how the movie paints Darcy as a professional zombie killer. This is why he gains a reputation for being the proudest, most disagreeable man in Hertfordshire. An additional difference is the fact that the movie reveals more about …show more content…

This was the discovery that Wickham infected Darcy's father. He’s portrayed as an antichrist who was basically forming an army of zombies to defeat humanity and create an apocalypse. The revealment of Wickham’s character goes against his Steers’ effort to balance the zombies and romance. In the original novel, the characters are flawed to an extent but can atone for their wrongful actions. But the way Steers(writer of the screenplay) depicted Wickham’s character in the movie, he’s beyond redemption. This goes against Austen’s depiction of

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