keira knightley played elizabeth bennet in the 2005 film pride and prejudice.
keira knightley played elizabeth bennet in the 2005 film pride and prejudice.
who played elizabeth bennet in the 2005 film pride and prejudice?
keira knightley
pride &amp; prejudice (2005 film)









































pride & prejudice is a 2005 romance film directed by joe wright and based on jane austen's 1813 novel of the same name. the film depicts five sisters from an english family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality and misconceptions. keira knightley stars in the lead role of elizabeth bennet, while matthew macfadyen plays her romantic interest mr. darcy. produced by working title films in association with studiocanal, the film was released on 16 september 2005 in the united kingdom and ireland and on 11 november in the united states.
pride & prejudice (2005 film)
another major theme of austen scholarship has concerned the question of the "bildungsroman" (novel of education). d. d. devlin in "jane austen and education" (1975) argued that austen's novels were all in varying ways "bildungsroman", where austen put into practice enlightenment theories about how the character of young people can develop and change. the italian literary critic franco moretti in his 1987 book "the way of the world" called "pride and prejudice" a "classic" "bildungsroman", where elizabeth bennet's "prejudice" against mr. darcy is really "distrust" and that "she does not err due to a lack of criticism, but due to an excess, as bennet rejects anything that she is told to trust "a priori". moretti argued that a typical "bildungsroman" of the early 19th century was concerned with "everyday life", which represented "an unchallenged stability of social relationships" in a world that was wracked by war and revolution. in this sense, moretti argued that the education that bennet needs is to learn to accept the stability represented by the world around her in england, which is preferable to war and revolution to be found elsewhere in europe, without losing her individualism. in the same way, clifford siskin in his 1988 book "the historicity of romantic discourse" argued that all of austen's books were "bildungsroman", where the struggle of the characters to develop was mainly "internal" as the challenge to the characters was not really to change their onward lives, but rather their "self". siskin noted in henry fielding's popular 1742 novel "joseph andrews", that a young man working as humble servant, goes though much suffering, and is ultimately rewarded when it is discovered that he is really an aristocrat kidnapped by the romany (gypsies) when he was a baby. by contrast, siskin wrote that elizabeth bennet's paternity is not in question and there are not improbable strokes of luck which will make her rich; instead her struggle is to develop her character and conquer her "prejudice" against darcy, marking the shift in british literature from an "external" to "internal" conflict. alongside studies of austen as the writer of "bildungsroman" are studies of austen as a writer of marriage stories. for susan fraiman, "pride and prejudice" is both a "bildungsroman" concerning elizabeth bennet's growth and a marriage story that ends in her "humiliation" where she ends up submitting to mr. darcy. critics are badly divided over the question of whether the marriages of austen's heroines are meant to be a reward for their virtuous behavior as seen by wayne booth, or merely "good girl being taught a lesson" stories as seen by claudia johnson. stuart tave wrote that austen's stories always seem to end unhappily, but then end with the heroine getting married happily, which led him to the conclusion that these happy endings were artificial endings imposed by the expectations of an early 19th century audience.
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