Abstract
The undertaken study focused on the theme of money by detecting the
influence of Pride and Prejudice on How It Happened and how the theme is
manipulated within the cultural scenario of South Asian Pakistan. The
postcolonial theory of rewriting provided the theoretical framework for the
study. The comparative method in the textual analysis provided the technique
for data extraction and analysis of the two undertaken texts. The findings
proved that the influence of Pride and Prejudice existed with all its charm for
the past 200 years. The gap is bridged by the act of rewriting, within the
specific cultural scenario of the once reader and now the rewriter Haider
(2013), portraying her indigenous and regional influence by accepting and
transforming the inspiration of the canon text and depicting the impact of
money on characters, their thought and actions. However, the findings led to
the conclusion that the theme of money stands secondary to the preferences
of the characters and the differences in treatment of mercenary values by the
characters explicitly depict How It Happened as an extension to Pride and
Prejudice.
Zinab Akram. (2019) While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own misery: A postcolonial investigation of How It Happened as a Rewriting of Pride and Prejudice, Balochistan Review, Volume XL, Issue 1.
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