An Italian dissertation thesis (Tesi di Laurea) and a review of a recent French edition of Brontë novels (Shirley and Villette):
Raffaella Porro
Università degli Studi di Padova, 2022
The aim of my dissertation is to analyse the character of Jane Eyre as depicted in the homonymous novel written by Charlotte Brontë in 1847, and in her representation in the 2011 film directed by Cary Fukunaga. In particular, I will explore how this female character represents the author’s struggle against patriarchy and women’s inferiority, against the influence of Christian constraints on society during the Victorian Age, and above all the turbulent love story between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester. McLeod (2000 in Gilbert and Gubar 2020) suggests that: “Jane Eyre had become a celebrated or ‘cult text’. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar […] celebrate Jane as a proto-feminist heroine who struggles successfully to achieve female self-determination in an otherwise patriarchal and oppressive world.”
Through a corpus study of academic article I will attempt to show how Jane Eyre has been influential and inspired numerous women and critics. The main focus of my research is the analysis of the most relevant differences of the last cinematographic representation in addition to the language used in the original novel in contrast to the one used in the film.
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