Jane Eyre Movie
A new version of Jane Eyre has just been directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga who directed Sin Nombre and the screenwriter Moira Buffini who is best known for Tamara Drewe (Jane Eyre, N.d.). The story is set in the nineteenth century and is based on a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was originally published on October 16th, 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. Of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." Later, the first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. The book was written from a first person perspective and much of this book was adapted to fit the movie. 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…...

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Works Cited

Ann, L. (2011, March 11). Jane Eyre 2011: A Film Review by Syrie James. Retrieved from Austenprose -- A Jane Austen Blog:  http://austenprose.com/2011/03/11/jane-eyre-2011-a-film-review-by-syrie-james/ 

Federicis, G. (2011, May 15). Movie Review: Jane Eyre. Retrieved from Blog Critics:  http://blogcritics.org/movie-review-jane-eyre-20111/ 

Irene. (2011). Jane Eyre (2011): An Uncertain Interpretation of Charlotte Bronte's Masterpiece. Retrieved from Hub Pages:  http://irene.hubpages.com/hub/Comparing-Jane-Eyre-2011-With-Charlotte-Brontes-Masterpiece 

Jane Eyre. (N.d.). Synopsis. Retrieved from Jane Eyre - Official Site:  http://www.focusfeatures.com/jane_eyre/synopsis

..(Lamonaca, 2002, pg. 245)
Within the work is a clear liberalization of Jane's ideas of spiritual fate and a challenge to the standards of the day, of a wife as a spiritual and physical subordinate to a husband.

Jane's insistence on a direct, unmediated relationship with her Creator uncovers a glaring inconsistency in Evangelical teaching that posed for women of faith a virtual theological impasse: Evangelicals championed the liberty of discernment and conscience for all believers, but also prized a model of marriage in which wives were spiritually subordinate to their husbands.

Given the religious and cultural context in which it was written, Jane Eyre proclaims what could be considered a message of radical spiritual autonomy for women. (Lamonaca, 2002, pg. 245)

Following in the line of her progression through the work the ending passage, including her no less than perfect description of her marriage to othschild is a picture of the demands of…...

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References

Bloom, H. (Ed.). 1987, Charlotte Brontee's Jane Eyre. New York: Chelsea House.

Bronte, C.1922, Jane Eyre. London J.M. Dent & Sons.

Gezari, J. 1992, Charlotte Bronte and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lamonaca, M. 2002, Jane's Crown of Thorns: Feminism and Christianity in Jane Eyre. Studies in the Novel, 34(3), 245+. Retrieved September 30, 2004, from Questia database,  http://www.questia.com .

The girls at Lowood are made to persist on a diet of precious little, sometimes spoiled food. The dormitories were too cold and the halls damp. Many essentials were denied the girls under the premise sited by Brocklehurst in an especially despicable scene where he lambastes Temple for apprising the girls with a lunch of bread and cheese after breakfast arrived spoiled and inedible. Brocklehurst informs her that in such a circumstance, the spoiled food should more appropriately have been seen as a lesson from God. He determines that a more suitable instructor would instead "take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of martyrs; to the exhortations of our blessed Lord himself, calling upon his disciples to take up their cross and follow him." (Bronte, 70) In one manner, we may take this sentiment as fundamentally similar to those expressed by…...

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Works Cited:

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Beth Newman. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996.

Jane Eyre: 1996 Movie Assessments
The novel Jane Eyre ends, not with a reference to the love of Jane and Rochester, but to Jane's cousin St. John River. Jane's distant cousin is a missionary who has exorcized his passion for a worthless woman from his heart and stripped himself clean of all worldly desires in the pursuit of his faith. He dies, a faithful man in a far-off godless land, filled with the knowledge that what he has done is right for his own personal soul and struggle. This last, novelistic reference to St. John, although not nearly as famous as the statement 'reader, I married him,' is just as important when analyzing the differences between the book and movie versions of Charlotte Bronte film. This last reference to St. John, and the intimate reference to the reader of the text stresses the two key elements of distinction between film and…...

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"Jane Eyre." Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. 1996.

Jane Eyre's Lessons In Inner Beauty
The notion of beauty, what it is and whether it is an inner or outward quality, has been long debated. For centuries people, and particularly women, have struggled with the concept of their own inner beauty as something as important, if not more important than their outward, physical beauty. This is no less true in literature. The idea of female inner beauty has not always been valued. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the protagonist, Jane, rejects her own outer beauty in favour of nurturing her intellect, her humility and those other inner qualities that she herself views as beautiful. She respects her wisdom and philosophy before any of her physical attributes, partly because of her need as a child to read, partly from the lessons she is taught. The ideas she embraces as a child regarding outer beauty are reinforced as they reappear in her…...

1847, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is structured like a puzzle. The title page reads Jane Eyre: An Autobiography but the work is credited to Currer Bell, an apparently male pseudonym. The author's involvement with the text is therefore signposted from the moment we open the book -- what does it mean for a work to be described as an "autobiography" but ascribed to a different writer? Obviously an autobiography can be ghost-written -- it is unlikely most of the Hollywood celebrities who publish an autobiography in 2015 have written these books without assistance -- but a ghost-writer is not normally credited on the title page, which ought to read "The Autobiography of Jane Eyre." Instead, the author is asking us to read the work as a fictional autobiography of a woman, but one that is apparently written by a man. Now of course that we know the author of…...

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Works Cited

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm

1847 Novel and the 1973 Film
The novel Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte in 1847. Although the novel is widely considered a classic, and is therefore presumed to be timeless in terms of its characters and themes, when a contemporary filmmaker wished to adapt its themes for present day audiences, there were certain aspects of the work that demanded changes, not in plot but in thematic emphasis and visual depiction. First of all, the religious themes of the novel were toned down. Bronte's religious concerns were presumed to be of less interest to modern audiences. Secondly, the passion between Jane and Mr. Rochester was made much more explicit in the film. hen a viewer sees a romance on screen, the unspoken thoughts in the characters mind must be turned into a picture. In prose, Jane's doubts about Rochester's love sound more real. Lastly, the contrast between book and…...

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Works Cited

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1842. The Online Literature Library. Last Updated 2001. Accessed Oct 31, 2005.  http://www.online-literature.com/brontec/janeeyre/ 

"Jane Eyre." 1983. Starring Zelda Clarke and Timothy Dalton.

Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, the desire of the protagonist to be loved is overpowered by her desire to be independent and autonomous. The difficulty, of course, is that Jane Eyre is first published in 1847: this was a world in which the humble governess who gives the novel its title was without rights and opportunities. In their groundbreaking feminist study of English literature The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar note that the novel was considered shocking, but not for any of the reasons that a twenty-first century reader might expect: they note that "Victorian reviewers….were disturbed not so much by the asocial sexual vibrations between hero and heroine as by the heroine's refusal to submit to her social destiny" (338). This "refusal to submit to…social destiny" is the heart of Jane's desire for independence and autonomy, to the extent that they were even…...

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Works Cited

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm 

Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Print.

Martin, Robert B. Charlotte Bronte's Novels: The Accents of Persuasion. NY: Norton, 1966. Print.

Oates, Joyce Carol. "Romance and Anti-Romance: From Bronte's Jane Eyre to Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." Virginia Quarterly Review 61, no. 6 (Winter 1985): 44 -- 58. Print.

Jane Eyre and Orientalism
The quality of Orientalism in Jane Eyre is that of the exotic, wild and impassioned element that lurks both within the mysterious character of Mr. Rochester and his imprisoned/insane wife in the attic. The "oriental" character is viewed as something that is foreign, in need of order, restraint and reason and yet which attracts the characters (including both Mr. Rochester and the missionary St. John, who wants to go abroad to preach the Bible) albeit for different reasons; the former seeks to lose himself, the latter seeks to find/redeem those who are lost. Yet the effects of the "oriental" on the spirits and moods of the two extremes represented by Rochester and St. John are similar: each becomes a kind of representation of death -- Rochester is trapped by a former, erotic love, now cut off from romantic love due to the laws of God and Church…...

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Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Planet PDF. Web. 5 Jun 2016.

Senel, Res. Asst. Nese. "A Postcolonial Reading of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys."

Dil ve Edebiyat Egitimi Dergisi, vol. 11 (2014): 38-45.

Zonana, Joyce. "The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of 'Jane Eyre'." Signs, vol. 18, no. 3 (Spring, 1993): 592-617.

epresentation of women in Jane Eyre, Great Expectations and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales
In Victorian culture, Women were Idolized, Protected and Oppressed

During the Victorian era from the year, 1837-1901 there was a definite gender role in England. During the period, women and men had very different roles in the society. Women and men perceptions were ideologically different. Men were superior to women during this period. It was a believe during the Victorian era that men had the capacity to reason, had their own self-interest, had the right of choice, as well as independence. This was not the case for women since women did not enjoy such rights (Goldhill, 2011). A woman of this era had to portray her feminine characteristics, which meant that one had to be emotionally dependent on their men, and had to be submissive.

Following such outlook and perception of the…...

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References

Goldhill, S. 2011. Victorian culture and classical antiquity: Art, opera, fiction, and the proclamation of modernity. New Jersy: Princeton University Press.

Newton, J.L., Ryan, M.P., and Walkowitz, J.R. 2013. Sex and Class in Women's History: Essays

from Feminist Studies. New York; Routledge.

Tuchman, G. 2012. Edging women out: Victorian novelists, publishers and social change. New York: Routledge.

Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre have captured the imagination of successive generations of critics, from the time they were published till today. Widely acclaimed, these two novels continue to literally mesmerize scholars as the harbingers of a unique literary genre of romance in a gothic drama setting, which is related with harsh vitalism and lack of moral zeal.
More than their technical aspects, however, a review of the critical literature on these two works reveals an almost unanimous view that the enduring appeal of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre lies in the works' ability to virtually unplug human emotion and expose it in its raw form.

Charlotte ronte, the author of Jane Eyre, and Emily ronte, the author of Wuthering Heights were sisters. It was, therefore, but natural that a shared upbringing, a sibling relationship, and common influences found its way into the literary works that they penned. As such, it is…...

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Bibliography

Bloom, H. "Introduction," in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, ed. Harold Bloom

(New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987).

Hinkley, Laura L. The Brontes, Charlotte and Emily (New York: Hastings House, 1945).

Lawrence, M. The School of Femininity: A Book for and about Women as They Are

GOTHIC NOVEL & JANE EYRE
According to E.F. leiler, "efore Horace Walpole, the word 'gothic' was almost always a synonym for rudeness, barbarousness, crudity, coarseness and lack of taste. After Walpole, the word assumed two new major meanings -- first, vigorous, bold, heroic and ancient; and second, quaint, charming, romantic, but perhaps a little decadent in its association with Romanticism, but sentimental and interesting" (12). Of course, leiler is referring to Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, first published in 1764, which introduced English readers to what is now called "Gothic Romanticism," a style of fiction characterized by the use of desolate or remote settings and macabre, mysterious or violent incidents.

Following Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the Gothic novel took on new dimensions and the terms Gothicism and Romanticism became linked forever in many other works of fiction between 1750 and 1850. This link is connected chronologically by numerous themes such…...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bleiler, E.F. Three Gothic Novels. New York: Dover Publications, 1966.

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Heilman, Robert B. From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad: Essays Collected in Memory of James T. Steinmann, Jr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967.

Oates, Joyce Carol. "Introduction" to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. New York: Bantam Books, 1981.

Victorian novel Jane Eyre including societal rules, social position of Jane, writing style of Bronte, use of dark language and metaphors.
JANE EYE

Jane Eyre is one of the most interesting heroines of the Victorian age and her unique position in the novel has sparked many debates regarding the role of women in old English societies. The fact that Jane was a governess and not a rich person suitable for ochester adds to her miseries. It appears that the beautiful emotion of love was missing from that society because though Jane understands the feeling, she knows that ochester wouldn't be able to reciprocate due to society strictures. In that age, it was believed that one must marry a person equal in social standing and thus love rarely was accepted as a reason to tie the knot. Jane's low social position adds to her wretched circumstances as ochester, though he loves her,…...

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Oxford edition: Oxford University Press, 1975

Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre illustrate Jane's troubled beginnings as an orphaned girl. The narrator of the story, Jane describes her being raised by her cruel aunt Mrs. Reed at the family's Gateshead Hall. At only ten years old, Jane's formative years fill with psychologically traumatic experiences. Her own aunt and cousin John act as Jane's primary antagonists at this point in the novel. Resentful of Jane and patronizing her for her poor and orphaned state, Mrs. Reed and her son John tease and patronize the young girl. But her strength of character succeeds; although at first Jane maintained a low profile at Gateshead in an attempt to ignore John's punishments, she finally reacts. Fighting John landed Jane in the red-room, but it also led her to the kind-hearted Bessie and Mr. Lloyd. Jane's honesty and ability to open up to the nurse and apothecary garner sympathy and she…...

Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre the main character Jane is faced with many difficulties while attending Lowood School that force her to strengthen her resolve to persiveer in spite of many obsticles. While initially Jane is eager for an escape from her life at Gateshead she soon finds that the past often shapes ones future and that life away from her cruel Aunt does not necessarily mean an end to her unhappiness. Jane realizes that her own views of religion vary greatly from those around her and have potential to greatly influence the path her life takes. She also soon learns that the school is under the total domination of Mr. Brocklehurst, which adds to her torment as she realizes that, even that kind to her must in the end bend to his will.
At the novels opening Jane Eyre is subjected to various cruelties by Mrs. Reed leading her…...

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