Abstract
In Pied and Prodigious, D. M. Andrews explicitly highlights that his novel is a parody of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and even apologizes to her for crafting such a novel. The author occasionally changes a few words in Jane Austen’s sentences while retaining the same syntax, thereby changing the meaning. He further adds symbolic elements, like pied coats and tall hats, to satirize the values of the Regency era in British history, thus both mocking the era and adding comedic elements into his narrative through stock characters, whose exaggerated characteristics are ridiculed. By exaggerating the basic characteristics of Austen’s characters, such as turning Elizabeth into Lizzy, a prodigy with extraordinary abilities and Mr Darcy into Mr Dicey, whose arrogance is magnified with his sense of fashion, Andrews takes a humorous approach. Although the literary genre of parody was historically disregarded due to doubts related to its value and originality, parody has recently been recognized as a unique genre that can offer fresh insights into the original works.