“My name is Lizzie Bennet, and this is my life.”
If you imagine a nineteenth-century, witty 20-year-old woman who looks quite a bit like Keira Knightly when you read this sentence, you imagine wrong. Instead, picture a video blog featuring a 24-year-old grad student named Lizzie, whose life is a modern-day adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice—and there you have the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, an interactive online show created by Hank Green and Bernie Su.
The show is presented in relatively short YouTube videos posted twice a week, but its online domain spreads even farther, with Twitter accounts, Tumblrs, and even Pinterest boards seemingly run by the different characters in the show.
In essence, it tries to make the characters as real as possible. After all, what real person is without their horde of social networking accounts?
