Helen Fielding

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 her lifestyle that she would like to change. In fact, majority of her storyline involves countless references to her insecurities, which is not healthy. To many, Bridget

Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance that Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive. Bridget Jones's Diary as an example of intertextuality in contemporary literature, Helen

more closely look at Candace Bushnell's book Sex and the City (1996) and relate the book's ideas about woman and woman's sexuality to postfeminism and third-wave feminism ideas. I will also look at cyber-feminism in relation to another chick lit - Helen Fielding's book Bridget Jones's Diary (1996). In my opinion, popular fiction reflects almost everything what happens in the contemporary

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

the audience to obtain from that piece of work. In many stories, there could be various themes; some interlock and some could be complete opposites, it all depends on how one interprets the story they are reading. In Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding, the novel illustrates the theme of how the perception of oneself, from outside forces, influences self-determination, love and marriage in one’s life. Women in society are told how to feel, how they should look, and how to behave. In today’s

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

Bridget Jones chronicles a year of her life via diary entries in Helen Fielding’s book, justly titled Bridget Jones’ Diary. The first-person narrative entitles readers to Bridget’s inner workings. Buried inside we find something much darker than her hapless-yet-cheery blonde exterior would suggest—calorie-counting compulsions, daily weigh-ins, ruminations about her romance life, and much more. Though blunt and revealing, Fielding’s account of a 32-year-old singleton’s life fails to subvert the woes

Throughout this novel, we see Bridget Jones having a breakdown as she writes her way through her struggles. In the novel, the quote "her nerves are shot to ribbons" is used to describe Bridget. This is a perfect quote to overlook the whole book honestly, because the meaning behind it is that she is either disappointed or depressed. In most of her situations she never knows what to do. Her mom also explains that she cannot stand her own problems and tries to solve them through others. This metaphor

than the intoxicated dinners with her friends. Bridget hopes to find a new job with potential. She lives alone and is a heavy drinker and smoker. One of her resolutions is to “stop smoking” and to “drink no more than fourteen alcohol units a week” (Fielding 3). Bridget’s way of keeping track of her goals is her diary. Before every entry she logs her weight, alcohol units, cigarette count, and her calorie count. The single Bridget wishes for a sex life and this brings plenty of drama into her life.

The value of literature as a source of knowledge is a timeless debate that varies depending on how knowledge is defined. I will adopt Hillary Putnam’s theory of “Knowledge of a Possibility” (Putnam 488) in “Literature Science, and Reflection” (1976), and focus on the value of literature as a source of conceptual knowledge. The emergence of the novel brought with it conventions for a more realistic writing style that aimed to appeal to the common readers. Variations of the degree of realism ranged