Reneé Zellweger as Bridget in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
Bridget Jones’s Diary: Edexcel Language and literature
Many readers of Helen Fielding’s 1996 comic novel Bridget Jones’s Diary find themselves laughing out loud at her exploits and even, perhaps, recognising something of themselves in her accident-prone behaviour. The film version was a huge success, capturing the spirit of what must be one of the most famous ‘diaries’ ever written in English. Bridget seems to embody several of the complexities of modern life — temptation by calorie and alcohol consumption, problems with work, involvement with love rats. Although she is a fictive figure, she represents much that rings true about contemporary culture.
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