[Movie Analysis] Jane Eyre

The famous novel by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, will be the subject of this thesis. I will seek to research the character of Mr. Rochester and his use and display in four film adaptations. All the adaptations will be compared to the source as well as to each other to determine how the character of Mr. Rochester is circumstantial each time. The adaptation theories from theorists such as Robert Stam will be used as guidelines. The film adaptations that will be used in this thesis are Jane Eyre (1943) and Jane , both theatrical versions, Jane Eyre (1997), a TV version, and lastly Jane Eyre from 2006, a BBC mini-series. According to the Internet Movie Database, almost thirty adaptations of Jane Eyre have been made. I chose to research these four adaptations for many reasons; I thought it interesting to have two American adaptations and two adaptations that are English . I thought by choosing adaptations that had only a year between their premieres would be interesting . The 2006 mini-series adaptation was chosen for its length and the 1943 adaptation was also chosen because I thought it was worthy of comparison to the other three adaptations, due to its age.

This paper focuses on the two main characters of the 19th century famous novels, Rebecca Sharp in “Vanity Fair” by William Makepeace Thackeray and Jane Eyre in the same title novel “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte. It attempts to point out the typical images of women who are intelligent, strong, independent and resourceful in the face of difficulty in the old days. From this, the researcher hopes to make some contribution to the portrayal of the English society in the 19th century, especially the life of women in that world.

This paper focuses on the two main characters of the 19th century famous novels, Rebecca Sharp in "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray and Jane Eyre in the same title novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. It attempts to point out the typical images of women who are intelligent, strong, independent and resourceful in the face of difficulty in the old days. From this, the researcher hopes to make some contribution to the portrayal of the English society in the 19th century, especially the life of women in that world.

The role of women in the society is constantly questioned, and for centuries, women have struggled to find their place in a world that is predominantly male-oriented. Literature provides a window to the lives, thoughts, and actions of women during certain period of times in a fictitious form. In most of the English novels, the female characters appear as more heroic figures than their male counterparts. This paper focuses on the novels of 19 th century England. For the discussion, it choses Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre, Lucie Mannette in a A Tale of Two Cities and Tess D'Urberville in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, as they belong to the group of the most powerful women characters who possess all the heroic qualities like courage, virtue, honesty and strong sense of individuality. The paper argues that they are not only successful in playing their traditional roles as daughters, wives or mothers, but also successful as individuals, retaining their identity under extreme pressure of patriarchic society.

The role of women in the society is constantly questioned, and for centuries, women have struggled to find their place in a world that is predominantly male-oriented. Literature provides a window to the lives, thoughts, and actions of women during certain period of times in a fictitious form. In most of the English novels, the female characters appear as more heroic figures than their male counterparts. This paper focuses on the novels of 19th century England. For the discussion, it choses Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre, Lucie Mannette in a A Tale of Two Cities and Tess D’Urberville in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, as they belong to the group of the most powerful women characters who possess all the heroic qualities like courage, virtue, honesty and strong sense of individuality. The paper argues that they are not only successful in playing their traditional roles as daughters, wives or mothers, but also successful as individuals, retaining their identity under extreme pressure of patriarchic society.

This thesis aims to show all the similarities found between Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded from 1740 and Charlote Brontë's Jane Eyre from 1847 in order to find evidence of intertextuality.

With Victorian writers, the path that had been created for women was far different than was made by the previous writers. If in the early nineteenth century, women were consider inferior compared to men, the situation would took a favourable turn for the 1800mid`s. As sources of inspiration, we already saw that private life was one of the most used tools. Biography and autobiography construct the largest source for the history of the women`s movement. Thus, Hardy wrote his novel having as source of inspiration women that marked his life. Charlotte Bronte used her own experience at a charity school and in Jane Eyre that thing made possible a complete view over the educational system and how the children were treated through the eyes of the writer herself. As regarding George Elliot, she knew the differences between the towns and the countryside and that helped her to expose better her characters, their daily activities and how they did manage with the moral rules imposed by that period.