Bridget Jones's Diary Lesson Plan

What do you notice about Bridget's list of resolutions and plans for the new year? Do you predict she'll be successful at achieving her goals? Why or why not?

Students may notice many different elements about Bridget Jones's resolutions from the sheer number of them to the wide variety of different focus areas to the seeming obsession with modifying her body and habits as much as possible. Since this question is really a jumping off point for exploring Bridget as both a character and representative of social and cultural values of a particular period in recent history, encourage students to consider which of these resolutions they may have made some version of themselves...