Sex/Relationships
Family
Friends
Awkward
Perception of Self
100
Why is she so attracted to Daniel who sexually harasses her?
100
How does Mrs. Jones perceive herself?
100
Would you want to be friend’s with Bridget Jones? Or would you you want to be friends with her friends? why or why not?
100
100
Where do you see repression and how does it work within Bridget Jones? How is that important to her identity?
200
Do you think Bridget Jones’s Diary makes Mark Darcy into a sex symbol?
200
Compare the masculine and feminine identities of Bridget’s parents and how it determines Bridget’s identity.
200
What issues do they have and do those issues reflect on how Bridget feels about herself?
200
200
Bridget's world is unrelentingly self-centered. Is this problematic? If not, is Bridget rescued by her wit and lack of self-pity, by the fact that she does take responsibility for herself, or by something else entirely?
300
Is the attraction between Mark Darcy and Bridget credible? Why isn't he too "safe" for her? Why isn't she too scatterbrained for him?
300
Are there any oedipal dynamics - or any other family dynamics - are work here?
300
How do Bridget’s friends masculine and feminine identities form her feminine character?
300
300
Discuss what part of Bridget's character enables her to continually pick herself up and continue, even after all the failures, embarrassments and inadequacies.
400
Why does Bridget feel that she needs a partner?
400
What is the significance of brother Jaime’s absence?
400
where do you see a psychoanalytic critique in Bridget and Tom’s relationship?
400
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400
How much of Bridget's identity lies in the quest for a decent relationship? Do you think marriage would change her?
500
how does this glimpse of Bridget as a child play into her values of sex and relationships as an adult??
500
On the one hand, Bridget's mother gets her daughter the job in television and is a constant in her daughter's life; on the other hand, she's impossibly self-centered, endlessly critical, and an object of some competition. "Bloody Mum," Bridget groans at one point, "how come she gets to be the irresistible sex goddess?" Is Bridget's mother a negative or positive influence on Bridget? How has she shaped her daughter?
500
What would Freud say about Bridget’s relationship with Shazzar, Jude and Tom?
500
500
how does this relate to perception of self?
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