Movie vs. Novel (Part 2)

Watching the final minutes of Jane Eyre went by pretty fast, which wasn't like the book at all. As Chris has stated in a previous post; the book takes a while to read while the movie only takes a couple hours. In some cases, I prefer to watch the movie because it doesn’t take up much time and it sticks in your head because there was movement with the actors on screen. The book takes quite longer and it’s harder to remember because all you’re reading are words that have no emotion unless you read some into it. That’s another thing too; you can be lead to a wrong direction because they said it in a different tone, and they meant something else than what you thought. I guess if you want something to sustain suspense you should read the book, and if you want something that doesn’t take more than one day to do would be to watch the movie.

The Problems with Most Movies

Reading the book might take days to finish, while watching the movie only takes a couple of hours. What do i prefer the Novel or the movie? Well, i prefer the Novel because it's in your hands, also because its very descriptive. When directors cast roles for films, they don’t always get it the way you would want it to be. You may find yourself disappointed by movie versions that don’t live up to your imagination. A classic complaint about movie versions concerns the deletion of material the reader finds important, which in Jane Eyre is taking out the gypsy scene, the proposal of St. John, etc. Point is, movies don't live up to the standards of the actual hard copy of the novel.

Novel Vs Movie

Chris:(From Novel)Jane and Rochester marry with no witnesses other than the parson and the church clerk. Jane writes to her cousins with the news. St. John never acknowledges what has happened, but Mary and Diana write back with their good wishes. Jane visits Adèle at her school, and finds her unhappy. Remembering her own childhood experience, Jane moves Adèle to a more congenial school, and Adèle grows up to be a very pleasant and mild-mannered young woman.


(From Movie)Jane and Mr. Rochester get married ,but at the end the movie doesn't show Jane writing letters to her cousins. Also, the movie doesn't show Jane moving Adèle into a better school, it just ends with Jane and Mr. Rochester(Who has regained his sight) in the forest with two kids walking. I think they need to make movies that don't cut out parts from the novel, even if it is really long.

Movie vs. Novel (Part 1)

Watching the Jane Eyre movie today was very interesting for many reasons: some parts from the novel was left out, and the actors seem more dramatic. Though it was different from the book, I thought that the parts we watched today were really entertaining, and I got sucked into watching it! The character Jane is matched up to what I envisioned her to be like: she has a sort beauty in her that shines even though her looks aren’t as graceful. A lot of the characters that appeared were very different: Mr. Rochester is not handsome or young, which didn’t surprise me, but I thought that he would at least look decent enough to the character written in the book. I did like the movie because you got to see the visual part of what I was reading, and their emotions were very visible, which helped me understand the context better.

Jane finally says yes.

As you know, Jane goes back to Thornfield and finds out that Thornfield has been burned down. So she stays in an inn and finds out what has happened to Thornfield, Bertha sets the house on fire, Mr. Rochester saves his servants and try's to save Bertha, but she jumps off the roof. As a consequence Mr. Rochester loses a limb and is blind. He lives deep in the forest with his servants when Jane finds him, she notices that he looks different by his face. The next day Jane and Mr. Rochester walk through the woods and he proposes to her again and she finally says yes. I guess what Charlotte Bronte was saying is that love is not from the looks, it's their personality.

The Last Tale of Jane Eyre

As sad as it is, the last chapter has crept upon us. Reading the last chapter was pretty interesting because both good and bad things have happened or surprised me at the least. Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester have finally been hitched, but things aren't going as I thought would have happened in the 10 year timeline. Things start out to go well at first: Mary and Diana still talk to Jane, and Jane and Mr. Rochester are happily married. From earlier in the book, a young French girl, Adele, used to be very sweet and kind. When Jane goes to visit Adele, she has become a very sour unpleasant young woman. It's quite weird when she used to be a very nice girl who seemed innocent when she was first introduced in the book. Later on in the chapter, I found out that Mr. Rochester's sight has almost gone away, and then it starts healing. His appearance has changed also when he had lost some limbs, and my response goes back to what Latrell said in the class discussion: "Charlotte Bronte makes it known to us that looks may not stay the same, but the love for each other does". It really puts in the perspective that looks don't matter, and Jane has come to accept that. I believe that she has grown as a character because she has overcome her problems that troubled her when she was young at the beginning of the book.

Jane Eyre can be Loyal and St John can be Rude!

One day, St John asks Jane to give up her study of German and instead to learn “Hindustani” with him; The language he is learning to prepare for missionary work in India. As time goes by, St. John exerts a greater and greater influence on Jane. His power over her is almost astonishing. This leaves Jane feeling empty, cold, and sad, but she follows his wishes. At last, he asks her to go to India with him to be a missionary—and to be his wife. She agrees to go to India as a missionary, but says that she will not be his wife because they are not in love. St. John brutally insists that she marry him, he also states that to refuse his proposal is the same as to negate the Christian faith.