Fiddler on the Roof vs Pride and Prejudice

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Introduction (from Wikipedia)	Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905.	Pride and Prejudice is a novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was aged 20–21, it was her third novel written and became the second to see print when it was published in 1813.
Author	Joseph Stein (book), based on stories by Sholem Aleichem	Jane Austen
Working title	Tevye	First Impressions
Language	English (source stories written in Yiddish)	English
Genre	Musical; Period drama	Novel of manners; Romance novel; Classic Regency novel
Medium	Stage musical	Novel
Set in	Anatevka, a fictional shtetl in the Pale of Settlement, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)	Hertfordshire, Derbyshire, Kent and London, England
Time period	1905	Late 18th to early 19th century (Georgian/Regency era)
Cultural Emphasis	Jewish religious tradition and community life, and the effect of social and political change on them, in Tsarist Russia.	Social class, manners, Christian morality, and the economics of marriage among the English landed gentry
What The Story Primarily Focuses Upon	Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to keep his traditions as three of his daughters choose their own husbands, while the Tsarist government increases pressure on the Jews of Russia	Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy overcome their first bad opinions of each other, while Mrs. Bennet tries to get her five daughters married
Main themes	Tradition vs. change; faith; family; marriage; persecution and exile	Pride; prejudice; self-knowledge; family; marriage; wealth and class
Religion that plays a role in the story	Orthodox Judaism (Ashkenaz)	Christianity (Church of England); a minor role, mainly through the clergyman Mr. Collins, Church attendance, and the celebration of Christmas.
Main characters	Tevye, Golde, Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Motel, Perchik, Fyedka, Yente, Lazar Wolf, The Fiddler ('GOD').	Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet, Charles Bingley, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, George Wickham, Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Number of daughters	5 (Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze, Bielke)	5 (Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, Lydia)
No. of daughters married off by the end of story	3: Tzeitel to Motel, Hodel to Perchik, Chava to Fyedka	3: Jane to Charles Bingley, Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy, Lydia to George Wickham
Daughter That Elopes	The middle daughter (Chava, third of five), with Fyedka, a Christian	The youngest daughter (Lydia), with George Wickham
The Protagonist	The father (Tevye)	The second eldest daughter (Elizabeth Bennet)
The Role of the Father	Tevye is the protagonist; he tries to balance tradition against his love for his daughters	Mr. Bennet is witty and sarcastic but does not control his family well
The Role of the Mother	Golde wants secure marriages for her daughters and at first supports the match with the wealthy butcher Lazar Wolf	Mrs. Bennet is obsessed with marrying her daughters to wealthy men
Means of finding Prospective husbands for daughters	Yente, the village matchmaker (the daughters reject this method)	Balls, social visits and family connections
Ending	A Tsarist edict expels the Jews from Anatevka; the family scatters, and Tevye, Golde and the youngest daughters leave for America	Elizabeth marries Darcy and Jane marries Bingley
Notable adaptations	1971 film (dir. Norman Jewison); Fidler Afn Dakh (2018 Yiddish-language production)	1940 film; 1995 BBC miniseries; 2005 film (dir. Joe Wright); Bride and Prejudice (2004); First Impressions (1959 Broadway musical)
Rejected suitor	Lazar Wolfe (wanted to marry Tzeitel, who rejected him because she wanted to marry her childhood friend Motel Kamzoil).	Mr. Collins (wanted to marry Elizabeth, who rejected him, because she has little respect for him).
Father aids daughter's rejection of prospective suitor	Tevye tells Golde that her grandmother's ghost came back to say that Tzeitel is intended for Motel, and to cement this nonsense, he also tells her that the ghost of Lazar's wife also came back and warned not to marry Tzeitel to Lazar.	When Mrs. Bennett threatens never to speak to Lizzie again if she rejects Mr. Collins proposal, Mr. Bennett responds that he will never speak to Lizzie again if she does accept the proposal (because he knows that Lizzie doesn't want to marry Collins)
Narrative point of view	First person, from Tevye's point of view (mainly while he is praying to God).	Third person, with free indirect speech mostly from Elizabeth Bennet's point of view
The reason why the elopement was scandalous	Chava married a Christian man in a Christian Church.	Until the wedding finally took place, Lydia and Mr. Wickham were living in sin.
How the elopement was dealt with	Tevye disowned Chava	Mr. Wickham's debts were paid off (Lydia was actually being held hostage, and she was unaware of it).
How the parents feel about one another	The parents love one another but do not respect one another	The parents love one another but do not respect one another (Mr. Bennett even tells Lizzie to be careful about marrying somebody whom she cannot respect).
How the parents married	The parents were brought together by a matchmaker. They met for the first time right on their wedding day.	Mr. & Mrs. Bennett met before they married. Mr. Bennett fell in love her when he saw how beautiful she was, but lost respect for her after they had married.
The Fathers' response to the daughters' elopements	Tevye disowns Chava and declares her "dead" to him, because she had married a Christian.	Although Mr. Bennett doesn't disown Lydia, he is very angry at her, and he chooses to impose strict curfews on Kitty because she was very much like Lydia in behaviour.
The Mothers' response to the daughter' elopement	Golde is devastated by Chana's elopement with a Christian.	Mrs. Bennett is initially devastated, but then when Wickham's debts were paid off and his forced to marry Lydia, Mrs. Bennett is happy that at least 1 of her daughters is finally married off.
The Sisters' Response to the elopement	Tzeitel welcomes Chava back with open arms, but warns her about their father. She becomes angry when Tevye continues to ignore Chava, but, is glad when she hears him pray "May God Be with you, " to Chava and her husband	Lizzie and Jane are angry with Lydia, because her behaviour could jeopardize their own chances for marriage; Kitty is upset because everyone is taking their anger towards Lydia out on her; Mary uses the situation to philosophize to everyone.

Introduction (from Wikipedia)

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was aged 20–21, it was her third novel written and became the second to see print when it was published in 1813.

Author

Joseph Stein (book), based on stories by Sholem Aleichem

Jane Austen

Working title

Tevye

First Impressions

Language

English (source stories written in Yiddish)

English

Genre

Musical; Period drama

Novel of manners; Romance novel; Classic Regency novel

Medium

Stage musical

Novel

Set in

Anatevka, a fictional shtetl in the Pale of Settlement, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)

Hertfordshire, Derbyshire, Kent and London, England

Time period

1905

Late 18th to early 19th century (Georgian/Regency era)

Cultural Emphasis

Jewish religious tradition and community life, and the effect of social and political change on them, in Tsarist Russia.

Social class, manners, Christian morality, and the economics of marriage among the English landed gentry

What The Story Primarily Focuses Upon

Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to keep his traditions as three of his daughters choose their own husbands, while the Tsarist government increases pressure on the Jews of Russia

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy overcome their first bad opinions of each other, while Mrs. Bennet tries to get her five daughters married

Main themes

Tradition vs. change; faith; family; marriage; persecution and exile

Pride; prejudice; self-knowledge; family; marriage; wealth and class

Religion that plays a role in the story

Orthodox Judaism (Ashkenaz)

Christianity (Church of England); a minor role, mainly through the clergyman Mr. Collins, Church attendance, and the celebration of Christmas.

Main characters

Tevye, Golde, Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Motel, Perchik, Fyedka, Yente, Lazar Wolf, The Fiddler ('GOD').

Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet, Charles Bingley, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, George Wickham, Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Number of daughters

5 (Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze, Bielke)

5 (Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, Lydia)

No. of daughters married off by the end of story

3: Tzeitel to Motel, Hodel to Perchik, Chava to Fyedka

3: Jane to Charles Bingley, Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy, Lydia to George Wickham

Daughter That Elopes

The middle daughter (Chava, third of five), with Fyedka, a Christian

The youngest daughter (Lydia), with George Wickham

The Protagonist

The father (Tevye)

The second eldest daughter (Elizabeth Bennet)

The Role of the Father

Tevye is the protagonist; he tries to balance tradition against his love for his daughters

Mr. Bennet is witty and sarcastic but does not control his family well

The Role of the Mother

Golde wants secure marriages for her daughters and at first supports the match with the wealthy butcher Lazar Wolf

Mrs. Bennet is obsessed with marrying her daughters to wealthy men

Means of finding Prospective husbands for daughters

Yente, the village matchmaker (the daughters reject this method)

Balls, social visits and family connections

Ending

A Tsarist edict expels the Jews from Anatevka; the family scatters, and Tevye, Golde and the youngest daughters leave for America

Elizabeth marries Darcy and Jane marries Bingley

Notable adaptations

1971 film (dir. Norman Jewison); Fidler Afn Dakh (2018 Yiddish-language production)

1940 film; 1995 BBC miniseries; 2005 film (dir. Joe Wright); Bride and Prejudice (2004); First Impressions (1959 Broadway musical)

Rejected suitor

Lazar Wolfe (wanted to marry Tzeitel, who rejected him because she wanted to marry her childhood friend Motel Kamzoil).

Mr. Collins (wanted to marry Elizabeth, who rejected him, because she has little respect for him).

Father aids daughter's rejection of prospective suitor

Tevye tells Golde that her grandmother's ghost came back to say that Tzeitel is intended for Motel, and to cement this nonsense, he also tells her that the ghost of Lazar's wife also came back and warned not to marry Tzeitel to Lazar.

When Mrs. Bennett threatens never to speak to Lizzie again if she rejects Mr. Collins proposal, Mr. Bennett responds that he will never speak to Lizzie again if she does accept the proposal (because he knows that Lizzie doesn't want to marry Collins)

Narrative point of view

First person, from Tevye's point of view (mainly while he is praying to God).

Third person, with free indirect speech mostly from Elizabeth Bennet's point of view

The reason why the elopement was scandalous

Chava married a Christian man in a Christian Church.

Until the wedding finally took place, Lydia and Mr. Wickham were living in sin.

How the elopement was dealt with

Tevye disowned Chava

Mr. Wickham's debts were paid off (Lydia was actually being held hostage, and she was unaware of it).

How the parents feel about one another

The parents love one another but do not respect one another

The parents love one another but do not respect one another (Mr. Bennett even tells Lizzie to be careful about marrying somebody whom she cannot respect).

How the parents married

The parents were brought together by a matchmaker. They met for the first time right on their wedding day.

Mr. & Mrs. Bennett met before they married. Mr. Bennett fell in love her when he saw how beautiful she was, but lost respect for her after they had married.

The Fathers' response to the daughters' elopements

Tevye disowns Chava and declares her "dead" to him, because she had married a Christian.

Although Mr. Bennett doesn't disown Lydia, he is very angry at her, and he chooses to impose strict curfews on Kitty because she was very much like Lydia in behaviour.

The Mothers' response to the daughter' elopement

Golde is devastated by Chana's elopement with a Christian.

Mrs. Bennett is initially devastated, but then when Wickham's debts were paid off and his forced to marry Lydia, Mrs. Bennett is happy that at least 1 of her daughters is finally married off.

The Sisters' Response to the elopement

Tzeitel welcomes Chava back with open arms, but warns her about their father. She becomes angry when Tevye continues to ignore Chava, but, is glad when she hears him pray "May God Be with you, " to Chava and her husband

Lizzie and Jane are angry with Lydia, because her behaviour could jeopardize their own chances for marriage; Kitty is upset because everyone is taking their anger towards Lydia out on her; Mary uses the situation to philosophize to everyone.

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