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Pride And Prejudice Book Vs Movie

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In the age of book-to-movie adaptations, the era of the Hunger Games and the Divergent trilogy, it is no longer a question of if a popular book will be adapted into a film, but rather when. However, everyone knows that the book is always better than the movie. Or is it? A book presents a unique opportunity to display emotions and events that aren’t always possible in the film. But does that always make it better? And do the differences in the film “Pride and Prejudice” enhance, or degrade the message that Jane Austen was portraying in her book? There are many similarities between the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice and the book. For one, the Bennet family, in all aspects, is just as socially uncorrectable and crazy as they are in the book. Lydia is just as much of a brat, Mary is always saying things she shouldn’t be, and Mrs. Bennet never stops talking about her daughter's getting married. They are desperately in want of propriety. However, we do see one significant difference from the film to the book in regards …show more content…

The book was written with the time period still fresh, and therefore was more historically accurate than the film. In the book, Austen’s writing, and in turn her characters, seem more restrained and proper in their emotions. They are the ones to spit angry, hurtful words in a civil manner, and then bow on their way out. It was a different time, and a way of life that some would find boring today. In the movie, everything seems to be overdramatized in that the characters are not nearly as restrained. Darcy stares unabashed at Lizzy, not even noticing anyone else in the room. Lizzy runs up the stairs after Lady Catherine’s visit, yelling for her family to, for once in their lives to just leave her alone. Every emotion in the novel seems to be taken times ten in an attempt to make the story more compelling, which, one has to admit, kind of

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