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How do I understand the language in Pride and Prejudice? I'm 13 and we haven't studied it in school but I would like to read it for fun but I can't understand even the first page! Can someone please help me out!
JANE You've gotten a lot of answers, to be sure. But both the older BBC series and the series with Colin Firth are hugely better than the Keira Knightley v…moreYou've gotten a lot of answers, to be sure. But both the older BBC series and the series with Colin Firth are hugely better than the Keira Knightley version, which I think is lightweight. I hope you will watch at least the Colin Firth version. It is outstanding, and really does justice to the actual book.
I do want to correct the assertion that Pride and Prejudice is set in the Georgian period - it is not. It is set in the Regency period, during which Jane Austen lived. Also, I don't think Shakespeare is much help here - he wrote in Middle English, in the late 1500s to early 1600s. English changed a lot in the 200 years between Shakespeare and Jane Austen.(less)
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