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The principal character’s in “Bridget Jone’s diary”

Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones and Daniel Cleaver at the pictures above.

// In this part I’m going to talk about the main characters in the book “Bridget Jone’s diary”. First I’m going to talk about Bridget Jones. Afterwards I’m going to write about her boyfriends, her boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy. I’m going to talk about the physical, emotional // // aspects of the three characters and I’m only going to talk about the psychological of Bridget. The author of the book is Helen Fielding. The book is chiefly about Bridget’s love-life and how she develops through her diary. //

Bridget Jone’s is a thirty year old single woman. She describes herself as “fat, spot on chin, and desire only to sit on cushion eating chocolate and watching Xmas specials”. Daniel Cleaver is Bridget Jone’s boss. He is a good looking man. “Love his wicked dissolute air, while being v. successful and clever. He was being v. funny today, telling everyone about his aunt thinking the onyx kitchen-roll holder his mother had given her for Christmas was a model of a penis. Was really v. amusing about it. Also asked me if I got anything nice for Christmas in rather flirty way”. Like I said, he is described as handsome. His looks gives the book a man with a rather bad personality. He is the high-class man, but he’s personality is not as “perfect” as his looks, but still all the women adores him. Mark Darcy is a successful barrier she met on her parents Christmas party. “He is one of these super-dooper top-notch lawyers”. Bridget describes him as “The rich, divorced-by-cruel-wife Mark – quite tall”. He’s looks makes him the kind one. It’s a bit hard to explain, really.
 * Physical – What does the character look like? **
 * Bridget Jones **
 * Daniel Cleaver **
 * Mark Darcy **

She was a bit selfish and frustrated. She was tired of seeing “Happily married” people, knowing that she was single. An example to this is when one of the characters named Geoffrey Alconbury said: “Come on, let’s get you a drink. How’s your love-life, anyway?” “Oh God. Why can’t married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn’t rush up to //them// and roar: “How’s your marriage going? Still having sex?” With this quotation you can see what she feels about being single. She had some bad habits with drinking and smoking too much, but she had a strong will and she made points that she wanted to change with herself. For each day she wrote, she also wrote about how much she smokes. On her first day (Sunday 1. January) she smoked 22 cigarettes. This is likely because she was stressed and felled a bit down. “Ugh. First day of New Year has been day of horror. Cannot quite believe I am once again starting the year in a single bed in my parent’s house. It is too humiliating at my age!” She actually enjoyed to be sexually harassed by Daniel Cleaver. “Hmm. Think will cross last bit out as contains mild accusation of sexual harassment whereas v. much enjoying being sexually harassed by Daniel Cleaver”. Daniel’s personality is described as superficial and handsome. He is a flirter. “Message Jones. You appear to have forgotten your skirt. As I think is made perfectly clear in your contract of employment, staff are expected to be fully dressed at all time. Cleaver” His personality gives the book a man with rather bad personality. He was also cheating on Bridget behind her back, with a younger more attractive woman. The first impression of each other was not so good. Darcy thought Bridget was a fool and she thought he was rude and arrogant. He also seems a bit shy around woman. “I. Um. Are you reading any, ah…Have you read any good books lately?” ** Psychological - What makes the character tick? **   In this paragraph I’m just going to talk about the centre in the book, namely Bridget Jones. In the beginning of the year she had really low self-image. She thought of herself, as I mentioned before as fat and in her diary she wrote about her weight, alcohol units and how much she smoked. She started out with lots of drinks and smoking, but it varies through the book. She was also bad when it came to finding the Mr. Right. She met the man of her life, Daniel Cleaver, but it turns out that he was cheating behind her back. On the Christmas party she met Mark Darcy. They both think the other one is stupid, but it turns out that he is the Mr. Right. Her self-image increases through the book. In the end, on Sunday 24. December she drinks 1 glass of sherry and smokes 2 cigarettes.
 * Emotional – What is the character’s personality like? **
 * Bridget Jones **
 * Daniel Cleaver **
 * Mark Darcy **
 * Bridget Jones **

** R **** estate **** your thesis and summarize what you have written. **    I have read the book “Bridget Jone’s diary”. The book is about a woman named Bridget that writes about her looks and feelings through a diary. She goes from being a woman with low self-image. She drank and smokes a lot and thought of her self as fat. Through the book she finds her real love and that is Mark Darcy. Her self-image also increases.

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