Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

MOVIE TRAILER:  http://youtu.be/fJA27Jujzq4

During our last class, we talked about using books as primary sources. Taking the example of Pride and prejudice, we watched 4 trailers about different versions of the book. One of them included zombies, something catchy for a young audience.
Based on the trailers we answered some questions:

1. Why do you think "Pride and Prejudice" continues to be a referent for modern tales?

       Because it tells us a romantic story from the perspective of an author from the XIX century. Many things have changed and that's why we still enjoy watching and reading Pride and Prejudice. It's something easily adaptable to our context and society because these are topics and themes still present in our society, like pride and prejudice.

2. What do you think is the effect that these different authors (film directors, producers, modern writers) want to achieve in today's audiences?

     They all basically portrait the story in the XIX century and take the main features adding their own style. They all tell us about a romantic story and want to make us think about these issues from our perspective now days. The film from 2001, Bridget Jones' Diary, takes the complete story into our society and helps us to understand the story better.

3. If you had to choose one of the previous versions to analyse, which would be the one and why?

      I would choose the original one (the one from the video above) as it is almost the same as the book and has more features from the XIX century than the others. These features are more difficult to understand so it would be a better analysis.