Colin Firth

Jane Austen, one of the most well-known 19th century novelists recognized today continues to captivate people with stories of love and romance through the transformation of her novels into film and television. All of her novels are about women dealing with romance, courtship, and marriage during a repressing period. Most of her characters and stories revolve around the lives of the upper class. It centers on the values, rituals, and manners of high society in England during the Regency Era. Her most

all of his adult life. As part of his duty as King, George VI would need to address the public with speeches in person and via radio, something that he found excruciatingly difficult and crippling to do due to his stammer. Throughout the movie, Colin Firth, the actor who depicts the future king, portrays the internal, physical, psychological and social hurdles people who stutter face daily. Many times during the movie you experience the king 's anger, pain, humiliation and self-doubt about his abilities

After twelve years of wait, the third instalment of the “Bridget Jones” (2001 – 2004) film series has been finally released. When Working Title Films announced its intention of making another film back in 2009, several problems arrived with such announcement. In fact, the director of “Bridesmaids” and most recently “Ghostbusters: Answer the Call,” was reportedly going to be the director of the film. However, creative differences arise with Working Title and he exited the project. Production was

“Did you know that you are fat?” four-year-old-me asked my parents’ friend. That is a mild example of a special quality that I have. Some call it word vomit; others call it not thinking before you speak; my mom calls it apathy, and sometimes people say it is just downright being mean. I call it absent-minded abrasiveness. I hang out with my best friend all the time, and one day she looked at me and said, “Evy, did you know that sometimes you say things that are really mean, but you don’t realize

I:Pride and Prejudice by, Jane Austen II: The setting of the story in Pride and Prejudice is 19th century Longbourn, England. It starts out close around winter time and proceeds from there. If the setting were different and it wasn’t around winter time, the course of the story would change. It would cause ripple effects and the whole plotline would be different. III: Here are some main characters from the novel Pride and Prejudice: First we have the protagonist of the story, Elizabeth “Lizzy”

           In society, money plays a major role. It is a necessity that is needed in order to survive in the world today. In Pride and Prejudice, it is the one element that determines one’s whole life and future. Not only is it needed to live, but it determines who you will marry as well as your social status in society. In this book, it is repeatedly shown that money plays one of the most important roles in society.      First

Jane Austen, one of the greatest authors to have ever lived, begins her (arguably) most famous work, Pride and Prejudice, with the very intriguing opening sentence: “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 is probably the most well-known and iconic opening sentences in English Literature. The effectiveness of this line as a stunning opener to the novel works on both the lexical and underlying levels: the use

The Anxiety of Self-Presentation in Bridget Jones's Diary   "The book is about the anxiety of self-presentation; Bridget is both Everywoman and an implicitly ironic observer of Everywoman." (New Yorker)   Helen Fielding writes about the anxiety of self-presentation in Bridget Jones's Diary. The New Yorker accurately identifies this central theme. Moreover, it correctly asserts that Bridget's search for meaning and order in her life exemplifies Everywoman. However, the New

In literature there are many views you can take on one piece of work, whether it be a cultural, feminist, or psychoanalysis perspective; as humans we see the world differently, so we also view works of literature in our own ways. Literature is like art, one person may view the piece in one viewpoint and someone else may view it completely different, but they could both have different perspectives than what the artist or author was intending for the audience to obtain from that piece of work. In many

Self reflection is something everyone does on a day to day basis. The way a person thinks about their self really alters their personality, but that is not the only thing it affects. Through self reflection a person can exacerbate insecurities. Insecurities tend to be an obstacle when it comes to love. Self reflection can have a positive or negative affect on one's love life. In the novel Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding’s main character Bridget, writes about how there are many things about