Pride and Prejudice 2

Upon watching the second half of the Pride and Prejudice showing, I found myself looking at the show in the same light as the article we read. To that I mean that the show was obviously more focused on the development of the secondary characters and that their performances were more focused on than that of our main character Lizzie or Elizabeth. For this point I point to the numerous additional scenes that Mr. Darcy is in that are not told in the original story. He actually is seen searching all of London until he finds Wickham and Lidia and then forces Wickham to marry Lidia in order to save the name of Lizzie's family. He also paid off the money that Wickham owed. The amount of time that Lizzie is the only focus in the scenes is truly much less than one would think. This thus lowers the effect of the character development of not only Elizabeth but also that of the infamous Mr. Darcy whose television counterpart is shown to be much more of a heroic and respectable man than that of the original Darcy.  Another element of the lack of focus on his character development is the fact they had an attractive man play him. This more appealing representation of Darcy forces the audience to focus on more of hi physical appearance rather than his character.  This is but a single method that adaptations use to alter the representation of character from their original designs in the source material.