Hello Mr. Darcy!

I’ve just recently watched ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ and I can’t get enough of Mr. Darcy’s eyes! Hehehe

He was played by Matthew Macfadyen, and well, upon seeing him in the film, I thought ‘where have you been all this time?’ (sigh, hehehe) It was because of him that I pushed myself to read the classic online, and I had to rest my eyes for a few days after.

In the book you’d truly hate Mr. Darcy, you’d just like him toward the last pages. In the movie, you’ll instantly fall in love with him even when he doesn’t smile for the most part of two hours on screen.

It was a nice film, with beautiful cinematography, and simpler than the book. But it was a courageous book. Jane Austen discusses in depth the double standards during the late 18th century. She made her character speak such language that may have shocked her conservative readers at that time in their frankness and courage at questioning morality standards and the treatment of females as objects of patriarchy. I learned that at that time, the book was first published and acknowledged as “written by a lady” without revealing the writer’s name. And long before it was made a classic, it was considered simply as an interesting romance novel.