Bridget Jones
...ms to fail horribly and embarrassingly at so many things, it is still funny because she humanizes the role and keeps trying. In this diary the spirit of nowadays lonely women is reflected perfectly. Bridget is battling with two different problems. One is the image of the Cosmo Girl, that she should be living this great, independent life full of friends and glamorous dinner parties. The second is the old fashioned idea of failure: that if you're not married by thirty, you'll die alone and be found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian. Marriage is the ultimate goal almost of every young woman as it was in Victorian ages. Bridget thinks that it's no longer necessary to be married in order to be well off. People who feel sorry for single women tend to feel less so if the women are wealthy, but of course that doesn't mean the women are happier. But also there are quite many people who are obsessed with thoughts of marriage. Bridget’s mother as Elizabeth’s in “Pride and Prejudice” is very keen on finding a husband for her daughter. She doesn’t think a...