The two male heroes in each story are Romeo and Mark, Romeo being a teenager and Mark being older and more mature. Romeo a teenager who looks for love with pretty girls like Juliet as Mark is a standoffish lawyer who at first does not appreciate Bridget being a well mannered type but later on sees her as a suitable individual.
Daniel is the unwanted love interest who cannot be trusted as he looks for sex in a woman. Romeo is unsuitable because he is addicted to young girls such as Rosaline and Juliet. He is also a love fanatic and will give up his life for someone. The two women consider them as potential husbands/boyfriends because of passion for love and sex.
The mothers and fathers in Bridget Jones’s Diary don’t mind how Bridget’s life goes on even though her mother wants her to be married. The mothers and fathers in Romeo and Juliet resent a Montague to be married with a Capulet because of the past feuding between them.
Bridget’s friends are Jude, Sharon and Tom, who give her, less than useful, advice. They might have met and became friends at work. Juliet’s friends are the Nurse was supposed to be one of Juliet's best friends but betrayed her by asking her to marry Paris, and Friar Lawrence, who was also a friend of Juliet met by Romeo.
Mark has a pseudo-girlfriend called Natasha who is a stylish sort of person like him. Romeo’s friends are Friar Lawrence, Benvolio, and Mercutio. Mercutio dies for Romeo and the others assist him.
Helen Fielding is the author who tells the story and gives her viewpoints, as Bridget providing ideas, such as a Cosmo girl, that should be living this great, independent life, full of friends and having glamorous dinner parties. The other is the old fashioned idea of failure: that if you're not married by thirty, you'll die alone and be found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian. Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet sharing his viewpoints on love through two teenagers and romantic language.
Staying true to you is the theme of the charming new comedy Bridget Jones’s diary and Romeo and Juliet have a theme of love that evolves throughout the play, as Romeo discovers a meaningful relationship with Juliet.
Bridget Jones’s Diary was set in a modern time whereas Romeo and Juliet’ was set in the late 1500’s when Shakespeare was present.
The disaster in Bridget Jones’s diary occur generally at the end of the story when Mark and Daniel have a fight to win Bridget and Daniel ends up losing even though Bridget feels sorry for him. The crises in Romeo and Juliet are at the time when Romeo is banished by the Prince of Verona and forced to leave Juliet because he kills her cousin Tybalt, but the worse is when both individuals sacrifice themselves for each other in the dramatic mix up of an ending. Because of this, Bridget Jones’s diary has a happy ending given that everyone survives and Bridget gets what she wants but Romeo and Juliet have a depressing ending as both characters pass on and seeing this, both families agree to never fight again.
To complete this essay, I think these two novels are exceptionally different as how the writers have written them in the sense of setting, words, viewpoints etc.
Old stories in Shakespeare’s time are known to have a slow, steady way of speech in writing with old English as in the modern age English is a very fast, swift way of language. This counts on the previous stories studied and hopefully, answers my essay title comparison.
Rameez Sheikh 11KXE
