Okay, we love Jane Austen, but there's something kind of amazing about taking her refined and mannerly world and throwing in a dash of ultraviolent zombie mayhem.
Sure, the all the guts and gore in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies are fun, but it's the juxtaposition of the two that's really brilliant. And it makes sense: the overt scariness of the zombie violence is actually a lot like the hidden scariness all these young ladies face in their search for a husband. A 19th-century woman without a husband to provide for her? Gasp—talk about an unmentionable.
Questions About Violence
- How does the zombie violence fit into the original scenes in the book? Where does it add to the humor, and where does it seem not quite right?
- If there are so many random zombie attacks on the road, why does everyone keep going for walks? Aren't they just asking for something violent to happen?
- Is it strange that hardly anyone hires bodyguards to go places with them, even though zombies are attacking left and right? And that the bodyguards they do hire are essentially red shirts?