A Comparison of Conceptual Metaphors of Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary
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This thesis analyses and compares conceptual metaphors of love and marriage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones Diary (1996) to observe romantic and marital cultural changes in the English society across the time span of these two novels. The major theory applied in the study is Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which proposes a correlation between metaphor and culture. This theory is used to identify and analyse conceptual metaphors of love and marriage in the two novels. Possible reasons are proposed as to why some metaphors appear in both novels while others are only found in one of them. It is discovered that the shared metaphors are either fundamental to the discourse of love and marriage or reflect their basic experience and nature. Metaphors that only appear in one novel reflect the liberation of sexuality, the progress in gender equality promoted by the feminist movement, and the new equilibrium and challenges posed by today’s more equal relationships.