This was too good not to share, and I am now putting out into the world the desire for an animated, animal friends version of Pride and Prejudice that does EXACTLY THIS. It would be AMAZING.
For anyone interested in the original: https://www.tumblr.com/pagerunner/191002786668/pride-prejudice-2005-dir-joe-wright
I found the screengrab on pinterest originally, so give the OG poster a like too!
WHY AM I JUST THINKING OF THIS??? MR. DARCY IS SO TAMLIN AND ELIZABETH BENNET IS FEYRE ARCHERON AND MR. BINGLEY IS SO LUCIEN AND JANE BENNET IS SO ELAIN ARCHERON AND I WILL NEVER GET OVER THIS GOODBYE!
one of my favourite thingd about pride and prejudice is the fact that darcy and bingley are friends to begin with. did they play together as little boys and grow up together, or meet and become friends as adults? i wanna know the story/circumstances of their friendship so badly!
Darcy and Bingley's relationship is the best representation of "extroverted golden retriever friend and their introverted black cat friend who got unwillingly adopted" energy in the history of media
It was my mom's birthday yesterday and to surprise her I dedicated the day to reading her favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, and writing down my thoughts as I read for her to look at once I finished; I don't think it's personally my thing but I'm glad I did so anyway and I now have a better understanding of something she loves.
Anyway Mr. Darcy seems like he'd be a Border Collie and I can't explain why.
Caroline Bingley is VERY unlikely to be a tradesman's daughter, in my opinion.
They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade. Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
Charles is 22/23. His father already had the money to purchase when he died. Mr. Bingley Sr. probably wasn't very old, Charles acts like someone excited to finally get out of guardianship, not someone whose dad just passed away, so Mr. Bingley Sr. probably made it to forty? That is not a whole lot of time to acquire £140,000 pounds in trade! Which means either Grandfather Bingley made the money or even that the money was partially acquired through marriage.
Add to that, the Bingley children are well educated. This is something that their father already had the money to do.
Also, they don't have connections in trade, because otherwise they wouldn't make fun of Elizabeth's trade connections. And yes, hypocrisy exists, but Caroline would not be stupid enough to make fun of Mr. Gardiner in Cheapside if he lived next door to Uncle Bingley. They are far enough removed from trade that they no longer associate with anyone in trade.
And "respectable family" might mean gentry! In S&S, the Middletons are referred to as, "a very respectable family" Catherine Morland's father is, "a very respectable man", in MP a steward is called, "a very respectable man." and the Miss Bertrams say they will participate in the play because, "There could be no harm in what had been done in so many respectable families" That word clearly does not denote if someone is gentry or not, more about reputation. Which means we do not know what the Bingleys are and who or how they got this money.
But Mr. Bingley Sr. making that much money and being able to purchase before he died seems very unlikely to me! And I doubt you can easily forget that your own father was in trade.