Jane Austen, one of the best-known 19th-century novelists today, continues to captivate people with stories of love and romance to through the transformation of his novels into cinema and television. All of her novels are about women confronting romance, courtship, and marriage during a time of repression. Most of its characters and stories revolve around upper-class life. It focuses on the values, rituals and manners of English high society during the Regency era. His most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, maintained the interest of its audience as it had nearly two centuries earlier, as evidenced by its frequent incarnations. In 1995, the British Broadcasting Corporation produced a six-episode miniseries of Pride and Prejudice in 1813 in partnership with Arts & Entertainment Network starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth as Elizabeth and Darcy. The BBC also made four other adaptations of the novel before this one in 1952, 1958, 1967 and 1985. The channel is famous for producing many period television series and films based on popular classic books. The 1995 drama series adaptation won seven awards, including an Emmy from eleven nominations for Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Series, and more. It was well received by audiences and earned high ratings of 9.2 out of 10 in the Internet Movie Database. IMDB reviewer Tom Benton writes: “The production design and costumes are perfect, capturing the weather flawlessly, and the locations are simply stunning. Carl Davis' score is terrific and appropriate. Andrew Davies' screenplay takes every scene from the book and then adds new ones, being as absolutely faithful to the book as anyone could hope for. Many people claim that this...... middle of paper ......rity and social status. A woman's purpose was to provide for her husband and take care of her children and home. These traditional gender aspirations limited women's full potential due to society's rigid rules and norms. The objective of this article is to identify representations of femininity through a semiotic analysis of pride and prejudice. Works Cited Kroll, Jack. “Jane Austen has lunch.” Newsweek November 7, 2011: 66-68. “Pride and Prejudice” Reviews & Ratings - IMDb. » The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. November 10, 2011. .Thomas, Eran. “Hooray for hypocrisy. » Newsweek October 29, 2011: 61. Grown up, Roberta. “Passion translated: literary and cinematic rhetoric in “Pride and Prejudice” (2005). » Literature Film Quarterly 36.1 (2008): 45-51. November 11. 2011.