ok here’s a hot take: modern adaptations of pride and prejudice should replace Mrs Bennet’s obsession w/ marrying her daughters off with a determination to see them all be lawyers/doctors/engineers in their own right, and her frustration with Lizzie for refusing Mr Collins should be because she turned down the opportunity to have a lucrative and successful career in order to do what she wants, which is, like, journalism or something
Like it doesn’t help the plot in the same way but within context Mrs B’s motivations can be boiled down to “make sure all my daughters are taken care of and going to be comfortable in their lives” which, back in the day, meant marrying well, but nowadays would look more like a full ride to an Ivy League, and rather than being disinterested in their romantic endeavors Mr Bennet should be completely blase about Lydia and Kitty giving each other stick-n-poke tattoos and failing Spanish and getting arrested. Elizabeth tries and fails to talk him out of letting Lydia go to “leadership camp,” a lie she told her mother to cover up the fact that she’s definitely tagging along with some college kids to Mexico for spring break. Jane is in med school and Mrs B prays every night that she comes to her senses and decides to be a neurosurgeon instead of doing doctors without borders. Lizzie tells her mother she’s majoring in women’s studies over text message and ignores 16 furious voicemails in response, partially cause she doesn’t want to hear it and partially because she’s arguing with Darcy, whose first name she refuses to know because he’s too rich to deserve one, in her opinion. So, yeah, soccer mom Mrs Bennet.
#darcy and elizabeth are taking the same course and of cOURSE he turned her down as a group project partner but then Things Happen and they#end up doing their final project together#the class ends and they end up in a different class together#darcy LOVED their research and wants Elizabeth to switch majors to pursue this but didnt she didnt think it went well at all and#the Proposal Scene is actually him trying to propose a new thesis where they combine their fields#(does she think he’s some business major chad? pre-law elitist? and she doesnt realize til too late that he DOES want to do good for society#oh god i just want them to end up creating something like the Duluth Protocol for better handling of domestic abuse#pride & prejudice au#*AHHHHHHH*#THIS THIS THIS#OHMYGAWD – @61below
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