Although the movie was ahead of its time and included some aspects of sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism, these aspects were dramatized and many gothic elements. Some have referred to it as a "Reader's Digest" version of the novel (Federicis, 2011) Movie Overview The movie tells the story of Jane Eyre who is played by Mia Wasikowska flees an estate to work as a servant of a child
"Although we made it seem like Thornfield is in the middle of nowhere, just beyond the edge of the frame was modern civilization" said the press releases although the film obviously does not include the backdrop There are also many gothic element beyond the location included in the film. Someone -- or something -- sets Rochester's bed aflame, takes a nasty bite out of a houseguest, and makes scratching, grunting noises from somewhere deep within the estate's walls which is not the typical lush, fancy production of Jane Eyre; it is gritty and spooky, bathed in deep blues and grays (Seahorse, N
To the constant pressure of indignity which is life at Lowood, for example, Helen observes that "we are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous from of flesh." (Bronte, 64) These words will prove eerily prophetic for Helen, who will sadly be claimed by the torrent of typhoid which rips through Lowood
Social Status in Jane Eyre "Reader, I married him" (Bronte 457)
Charlotte Bronte herself was born and raised in Victorian England, one of three sisters who all became published authors. "The prejudice against women in the nineteenth century was such that the three sisters were forced to adopt male pseudonyms for the initial publication of their novels because they knew that their books were unlikely to be published if they had used their own names" (Longman Literature, viii)
Although the title page claims the genre of the work will be autobiography, the novel does not begin in any way that an autobiography normally does. The book's first sentence is "there was no possibility of taking a walk that day" (Bronte I)
Yet the imagery Jane uses to describe the circumstances is almost shocking: "no jail was ever more secure….the mood of the revolted slave was still bracing me with its bitter vigour; I had to stem a rapid rush of retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present" (Bronte II)
Gilbert and Gubar note that Bronte deliberately ensures that "Jane's first meeting with Rochester is a fairytale meeting. Charlotte Bronte deliberately stresses mythic elements" (Gilbert and Gubar 351)
Robert B. Martin notes that the style of conversation between Jane and Rochester itself is indication of Jane's placement of equality above love, noting that "only equals like Jane and Rochester dare to speak truth couched in language of unadorned directness" (Martin 94)
Novelist Joyce Carol Oates, in an essay on Jane Eyre, notes the religious theme is sounded at the book's end only to be rejected, noting of St. John's final words recorded by Jane Eyre that "those who have love have no need of this particular Lord Jesus" (Oates 58)
The other, strangely, is Rochester's blindness. As Gilbert and Gubar note of the final union of the protagonist with Rochester, "when both were physically whole they could not, in a sense, see each other because of the social disguises -- master/servant, prince/Cinderella -- blinding them, but now that those disguises have been shed, they can (though one is blind) see and speak even beyond the medium of the flesh" (Gilbert and Gubar 368) The great feminist novelist Virginia Woolf once said of Charlotte Bronte that "she will write of herself when she should write of her characters" because "she is at war with her lot" (Woolf 70)
Jane is a noble soul, if not of the noble classes -- and this is why Rochester secretly admires her: she is intelligent, sharp, talented (can read, draw, perceive and argue very well -- and, best of all, she shows no real fear of him). Indeed, even if Jane repulses Rochester and resists him, she still calls him "my master" in a way that suggests that Jane is more willing to submit to him than she lets on (Bronte 394)
Her return to Rochester at the end is, in some ways, like St. John's voyage to the Indians -- he goes to save them; she goes to save both herself and Rochester by giving in to the love impulse that is calling at her: "Jane! Jane! Jane!" she hears in her mind (Bronte 805)
Like, St. John, Jane goes out to redeem the "other" -- which is how Senel describes the "oriental" in the novel -- as one who is outside the mainstream and accepted society (whether this is Rochester who is deliberately asocial or his mad wife) (Senel 38)
John's voyage to the Indians -- he goes to save them; she goes to save both herself and Rochester by giving in to the love impulse that is calling at her: "Jane! Jane! Jane!" she hears in her mind (Bronte 805). According to Zonana, Jane thus becomes the "slave" of the "sultan" who is Rochester when she finally succumbs to the voice in her head and submits to the will of the heart (Zonana 593)
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