Da estrutura de Marriage Plot à comédia romântica: uma análise crítica do papel da mulher através das obras Orgulho e preconceito e o Diário de Bridget Jones

Abstract

This monograph analyses the novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) and the movie Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) through a feminist perspective about the gender roles designated to women and men. In order to analyze the works, the marriage plot concept was historically and structurally explored. This structure is presented in Pride and Prejudice and in Bridget Jones’s Diary , considering it as an equivalent term to the genre romantic comedy in cinema. The objective of this work is to analyze the book and the movie through a feminist perspective. This analysis focus on marriage plot structure and the genre romantic comedy. These structures presented on the texts analyzed can be used as a way of deconstruct gender roles, although they affirms that marriage is a standard of patriarchal society. Later, gender roles questions were analyzed using excerpts of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary ; this analysis was based on how gender questions affects the social relations of the characters of both texts. Although inserted in a different socio-historical context; it was observed that both works present an idealized pattern of women’s behaviour and divide women and men through social roles they must assume within society. Therefore, in conclusion, fiction has an important role in the discussion about the patriarchal society and their assumptions, opening space to reflect about the oppression and the restricted space that society alots women.