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This essay is a comparison of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte with the 2011 film adaptation.
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The diminutive Jane Eyre is introduced to readers of Charlotte Bronte’s first-person narrative as a misunderstood outcast, imprisoned at Gateshead and then in the “red room” by the heartless Mrs Reed. Similarly, the 2011 adaptation presents Jane as desperately alone but with a tenacity that affords her the status of a “rebel” outsider who will when pushed “resist all the way”. The relatively unenlightened ten-year-old is guided by her heart (a heart which Mrs Reed in the 2011 adaptation claims is “a heart of spite”) and although the narrative charts the progress of its protagonist over a decade, we nonetheless believe that far from accepting that she must alter her behavior in accordance with societal dictates, Jane ultimately refuses to make concessions and the consistency of her judgments, as well as her personal conduct, is proof of her triumph in defying those who had formerly called her “deceitful” “naughty” “wicked”, and “tiresome”.
