Resumo de Pride And Prejudice

I don?t think that many Library have any Jane Austen books,
but we do have a few movies based on her books, the best
being Persuasion. (Note: We've gotten some since!) One
interesting thing about this movie is that it has a picture
on the front cover of two people who aren?t even in the
movie!I told you I was thinking about Romantic Comedy.
Jane Austen, in my opinion, is the Queen of Romantic
Comedy. I?d like to say that she?s the original, since I
couldn?t think of a writer of romantic Comedy earlier than
Jane Austen. Then I thought of William Shakespeare, and I
suppose I?ll have to concede that his comedies are exactly
that. Perhaps Jane Austen is the first author of Romantic
Comedy in modern English.I first read Pride and Prejudice
in about 10th grade, on the recommendation of my friend
Jennifer Schilpp. The plot is essentially the same one
used in the current movie You?ve Got Mail. It involves our
heroine?s pride keeping her from seeing the magnificent
qualities of the hero until the end. Jane Austen?s humor
comes into play in her exquisite characterizations of the
people of society life in the 18th Century.Pride and
Prejudice begins with that classic line: ?It is a truth
universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of
a large fortune must be in want of a wife.? I?m afraid
that when my husband Steve was forced to read Pride and
Prejudice in college English (If only I?d had that
teacher!), that delightfully humorous line (to me)
completely put him off. This was before we were dating.
He said that he kept trying to read it, but simply couldn?t
stand it. In the end, the teacher had all the class
members write a question for the final exam. Steve?s
question was chosen, so he got an automatic A on the
final. The ironic part was that he couldn?t have answered
the question himself.I had an instructor who didn?t think
that Jane Austen?s works were worth studying. So when our
term paper was to choose an English author and explain why
their works were worth studying, I chose Jane Austen. I
had months to write the paper, and ended up using the time
reading every Jane Austen book written. Then, as with all
my other college term papers. I wrote the paper by staying
up all night the night before. I still believe that Jane
Austen?s books would be all the more highly regarded if
women, not men, were the main arbiters of taste in
literature. Now I have quite a little set of movies based
on Jane Austen books, but I only watch them when Steve is
out of town!

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