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Bridget Jones's Diary is a highly imaginative interpretation of the novel Pride and Prejudice, so different to be hardly recognizable. Discuss.

Directed by Sharon Maguire in 2001, one hundred and eighty-eight years after Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, with that, Bridget Jones's Diary would seem be quite diverse to Pride and Prejudice. But it is actually a highly imaginative interpretation of the novel. This modern interpretation is seen through the plot, characters, context, values, language and film techniques.

Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary can be quite deceivable to the extent in which they are similar. To begin with, the first line from Pride and Prejudice states "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This line has been modified in Bridget Jones's Diary as a voice over and it states, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that the moment one area of your life goes......

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