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Jane Eyre Film Analysis

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Comparison between the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, and the homologous film from 1996
-Berendi Camelia, EN-CH-

The 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë has seen numerous film adaptations, which only added to its vast popularity. The bildungsroman follows the plain-featured, poor, but honest, intelligent and dignified orphan’s development from an oppressed young girl to an independent woman who has found a balance between her often conflicting principles and sentiments. In her quest for a home and a family to belong to, Jane Eyre searches for both intellectual and emotional fulfillment, while strongly making a statement about women’s role in the Victorian society, gender and social iniquity and discrimination. The themes of the novel remain …show more content…

The entire St. John plotline is truncated, a choice which I consider not very inspired since it constitutes a major part in Jane’s development and growth to the woman she aspires to be. The action taking place at Marsh End is shifted to Gateshead, St. John only has one sister (Mary), and Jane has met them before when she came to visit her dying aunt, Mrs. Reed. The job Jane gets at Morton as a school teacher is not mentioned and neither is the fact that her newly found companions are her cousins. She donates part of her inheritance to Lowood School, instead of dividing it between herself, St. John, Mary and Diana. The fact that in the film St. John and Mary are not her relatives has a strong repercussion on how we interpret the sequences. Always in search of somewhere to belong to, she finally finds not just a spiritual family in the person of her friends, but also a real family, one she never knew she had. At Marsh End, she finds solace, a purpose, and, most importantly, she gains her long desired autonomy and independence (in the form of the wealth she inherits and also as her working as a teacher), no longing having to depend on anyone for sustenance. From Rochester’s intellectual equal, she becomes also his social

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