Jane Eyre: Money Matters & Flirting
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The atmosphere is electric between Jane and Mr Rochester. Modern adaptation of the classic Charlotte Brontë novel starring Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens.
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Did you notice the ‘thumbsdown’ just given to our little dialogue here? Isn’t it a shame everytime people like us engage in a nice, quiet, cultured dialogue like this, there’s always a fool to give it ‘thumbsdown’?…
Comment by mendoncacorreia — July 12, 2009 @ 4:32 am
I’ve never been sure about the ‘gothic features’ in “Jane Eyre”: the main examples generally given as such aren’t convincing to me.
Why is Thornfield Hall to be looked as a ‘gothic manor’ is something I don’t understand. I completely disagree with the idea that Jane and Rochester are ‘byronic heroes’ (and I’m not alone in that opinion). Bertha Mason, ‘the madwoman in the attic’, is simply a lunacy case.
To judge “Jane Eyre” as a ‘gothic novel’ on such basis seems an overstatement to me.
Comment by mendoncacorreia — July 12, 2009 @ 6:47 am
Mind you, I never said I thought that: all I did was to draw your attention to a statement I think is worthy of a closer study.
Quite frankly, after all these years I can’t make my mind about Charlotte Brontë’s novels. I find it very hard to include them in any specific XIX century Western literary current. I wouldn’t mind seeing them judged as a case apart: that’s what has been done about the works of my countryman, the great Portuguese poet João de Deus (1830-96).
Comment by mendoncacorreia — July 12, 2009 @ 8:01 am
To my regret, I have lost the written note I took about it back in my youth…
I will welcome any help in locating that statement: back then, I thought it to be a very refreshing point of view about the novel.
Comment by mendoncacorreia — July 14, 2009 @ 8:16 pm
For example in JE the (supernatural) gothic features are not used to frighten neither characters nor readers , so you can think it is not a gothic novel in a proper sense, but gothic features still are.
Comment by XimenaBaires — July 17, 2009 @ 1:24 pm
Anyway, I do not see a contradiction in the fact that a gothic novel be a predecessor of magic realism, as literary genres do not have strict boundaries.
Some essays consider Jane Eyre a gothic novel and others do not and talk about a not true gothic novel or new gothic or whatever. But her gothic features are never denied, even though some authors consider they are not treated in a strict gothic way or they are only used as a setting,etc
Comment by XimenaBaires — July 18, 2009 @ 7:17 am
Also I will be grateful if you can explain why you think that (I cant see the connection with magic realism clearly but I am thinking of).
Comment by XimenaBaires — July 20, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
I do not know what you say about Borges. I am certainly he did not write about Jane Eyre in neither Introduction to English Literature nor Professor Borges (compilation of lectures he gave as professor of English and American Literature at University of Buenos Aires ). But he wrote a lot about books and writers so I will look up.
I am interested in what you say, if you know in which book he said that please let me know.
Comment by XimenaBaires — July 23, 2009 @ 9:48 am
just adore this version…even though they do not stick to the correct story…who cares… i just adore this mr rochester…my fav used to be tim dalton but he was pulled down by the infamous casting of jane ….
he far too good looking for the part but i just love how the two cast members play off each other
Comment by ellenruddy — July 24, 2009 @ 1:26 pm
I adore the playful nature between these two, he is worried about her welfare by giving her a lot of money but, anxious that she will not return to him.
So Cute:)
Comment by msmoviefanatic — July 27, 2009 @ 1:15 am
As far as I remember, it was Jorge Luís Borges who stated that “Jane Eyre” was one of the predecessors of the so-called “Magic Realism” in Literature.
This statement is worthy of a closer study, because the novel seems (at least to those like me…) way out of the canons of romantic or gothic novels.
Comment by mendoncacorreia — July 29, 2009 @ 4:36 pm