Was Mr. Darcy a Bad Boy?

Here we are 200 years later still swooning over a character who exhibited what seems to me to be a bad boy persona.  When it comes to Pride and Prejudice, I hear many Team Darcy more than Team Mr. Bingley.  I actually have to look up his name to remember him.  The latter was loveable from his first entrance.  So, why so much love has been given to  Mr. Darcy more than the gentlemanly Mr. Bingley who stole Elizabeth's sister's heart?

What is Mr. Darcy's true appeal?  Even Elizabeth didn't have nice words about him before she even approached him.  My only way to understand the pull toward Mr. Darcy is that he is a bad boy in the sense that he was harsh with his words, judgmental of others, ruthless in his status in society and didn't care how he treated women he didn't deem worthy of his attention.  

This is the type of man women are drawn to, so in conclusion I think looking at Mr. Darcy as a bad boy who changed because of his love for Elizabeth is the only answer.  We all secretly have that dream that we can change a bad boy into a Mr. Bingley.

Isn't that what great stories are about?  Having very abrasive characters who change toward the end because of some form of love in hopes that every harsh individual has hopes of change and therefore bring about a world of peace full of dancing and laughter?  A little grand thinking I might say.  

Whatever the case, Mr. Darcy has always been portrayed as the very cold mysterious, good-looking dresser in every adaption.  What would misses Austen's tale have been with a Mr. Nice Guy as the main character?  There would be no tale.  There would not be that pull of two different polarities that creates chemistry between the beginning Mr. Darcy and the bashful Mr. Darcy in front of Elizabeth in the last few pages.

Mr. Darcy Bad Boy Reputation  in Black Society

In my update of the story told in the black community, I had a different approach to the bad boy syndrome.  I felt that many movies have portrayed black men in this harsh cold way already and there are not enough positive responsible  views of black men that do exist in the media or cinema.  

So, I decided that certain points needed altering. Elizabeth's black character Giselle would switch roles as the one who was unwilling to change her harshness but slowly dissolves as every time she approaches Mr. Washington expecting the same old war she has with black men that he always surprises her and therefore, it is Giselle who must change in order for the story to continue.  

I don't know if I had already mentioned this in earlier posts, but I have already written the first chapter of the sequel and it flows very well.  I did so because the ending, as I have mentioned before, is going to be different than the original Pride and Prejudice because I would be able to fulfill the same ending in the next book.

Plus, unlike some movie versions that have either Elizabeth getting married with her sister or already married at the end, I felt that the time period before all the sisters' marriages would be a great plot to revisit using the same template of the original, Instead of looking for husbands, the drama would focus on the girls dealing with the extra drama within a committed relationship that may or may not lead to marriage even with a proposal.  

Well, that's enough gab for today...Please leave some suggestions for posts or questions, I am in dire need of some ideas.

See you next Saturday.

Love,

Denise Rochelle