Jane Eyre Narrative

Cary Fukunaga’s adaption of the Charlottle Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre have many differences one being the narration of the book adapted onto how it is displayed on the screen. In the novel Brontë writes in a first-person narrative, being Jane Eyre herself telling back the story of her life. However in Fukunaga’s adaption instead of a first-person narrator, the story is rather shown as it happen, still however as it did in the memory of Jane Eyre, in a sort of a flash back of memories. As the novel is read the readers may take note of a lot of use of pronouns such as ‘I’ and ‘we’, indicating that the novel is being written in the style of a first-person narrator. Whereas in the film there is no one person speaking throughout the sequence. The readers may first come across this use of pronouns

This scene is in the form of a flash back, which occur throughout the film almost coming across as haunting Jane as she tries to better her life and forget about the hardship of her past. This giving the audience an idea of how the story is going to end up, but first we are taken back and shown how and what led to this scene in the very beginning. On the other hand in comparison to the film, the novel starts off in the very beginning of Jane’s young life with one of Jane’s thoughts about that day. Straight away we are made aware of whose story it is and who is telling it. Whereas in the film there is a little bit of suspense created as we watch to wait who the main character is and what has led to the drama of her life. The opening scene of the film is extremely dramatic and immediately draws the audience in as the curiosity of the audience grows to wonder how the weak young lady in the scene got to this point. Opposite to this the opening of the novel is set at a rather slow pace not skipping out on any