To each piece of work its uniqueness and beauty, and thus from the very start, I must be fair and state that both the movie and the book of Jane Eyre were masterpieces.
Most of us, when comparing between the movie and the book search for the key points that either were omitted or were changed in the movie from the real novel (since the book precedes the movie and anyone who had read the story knows every single detail in it). We search and notice these absent or changed scenes probably because we fear that the viewer, one who hasn’t read the story, will fail to understand the point behind the story (including the development of the main characters, their behavior and much more). It’s undeniable that due to the restriction in time, many scenes had to be omitted from the movie. But a small inconvenience was that some of these scenes were very crucial to a complete understanding of the sequence of things. When it was important to realize the reason of Jane’s departure from Lowood School, which is the departure of Miss Temple (a dear person to Jane and the only one she could relate to during both her study and teaching years at Lowood), this scene was no were to be viewed; yet it was very important for the viewer to see, not only to make sense to the sequence of things but also to enhance one of Jane Eyre’s major themes which is the search for home, attachment and oneself. (The above is just one example of important missing scenes).
Although, most of the people would expect that I would go now disadvantaging the novel over the movie in some particular area such as for the successful gothic sets used in the movie, well I won’t. The novel was the fruit of a great mind and only reading the novel would do justice to both the novel and the writter.
However, I will conclude by saying that yes both works were great, but they are not to be compared together. They are just different arts.
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