The Differences Between the Novel and the 2005 Film Version of Pride and Prejudice

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The differences between the novel and the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice Research Paper Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background Information 4 Who is Jane Austen? 4 What is Pride and Prejudice about? 5 Comparison of the book and film 6 Formal conduct 6 Description of way of living and social norms of people 6 Plain differences in the scenes 7 Characters 9 Conclusion 13 Summary 13 Sources 15 * Introduction Reading has always been something I have enjoyed and my favourite work is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: one of the most well-liked stories in the world of literature. This is my first time writing a research paper and I thought that the rational idea would be to choose a topic that I am acquainted with. Since merely analyzing the novel would have been too wide as a topic I took a different approach and made the decision to compare Austen's original book to the 2005 film version. I wanted to find the differences between the two and see what impressions these make. Ultimately, my objective was to prove that the book is more realistic than the film if the fact that the story takes place at the end of the 18th century were to be taken into account. In addition I created a hypothesis that due to the plentiful amount of mistakes in the cinema version the written down form is more believable. In order to show this to be true I first read the book thoroughly and then watched the film while writing down all the dissimilarities I could find, whether they be events that had not happened in Austen's work or the disposition of characters being unlike in the hardcover. Then I researched from different internet sources to check over things I was not certain whether they were true or not. After this I chose in my opinion the most important of the differences I had found and wrote the research paper. This project has let me

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