Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre traps its Gothic romance in a haunted house and the result is both thrilling and nerve-racking. Screenwriter Moira Buffini’s incredible adaptation restructures the narrative of Bronte’s piece, whisking together a mixed chronology that only enhances the film’s suspense.

She values self-respect, self-truth, and she is not willing to compromise it even for those things she desires most. Truth to self is valued above all else. This, in short, is the central theme of this novel, and the underpinning of Jane’s character.

Jane Eyre is narrated by its title character and so presents us with a story from a sole point of view. When the novel was first published it included the subtitle, ‘An Autobiography,’ thereby drawing further attention to its narration by one person very much involved with the story to be told.

Jane is assertive and dauntless and her narration adds strength and not weakness to the novel. Her perspective is not objective, she as a mature woman is looking back into past events. It is interesting to note that Jane’s narrative gains the shape of an omniscient narrator at rare points of the novel.

Jane marries Rochester because she views him as her emotional home. From the start of the novel, Jane struggles to find people she can connect with emotionally. In Chapter 22, Jane observes that she views Rochester as her home, emphasizing this kinship she feels with him.

Jane Eyre is a novel written entirely in a first-person narrative, from Jane’s point of view. Perhaps they depict a character in a negative way because they posses characteristics that the narrator does not approve of, thus encouraging the reader to see this character in the same light. …

The novel opens on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. A young girl named Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick’s History of British Birds. Jane’s aunt, Mrs. John then hurls a book at the young girl, pushing her to the end of her patience.

First Person (Central Narrator) The narrative point-of-view seems pretty straightforward here: our protagonist, Jane Eyre, tells us her own story in a novel called, um, Jane Eyre. That’s our first hint that it’s all Jane, all the time.

Mabel Ballin as the title character in the 1921 film Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine and the titular protagonist in Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel of the same name.

It was written by Charlotte Brontë, whose best known work is probably Jane Eyre, and, like most books written in the 19th century, the prose is predominantly past tense. She tells us the story in a filtered fashion, picking her details and leaving some out until chapters later, so the past tense choice makes sense.

The relationship between Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester plays a major part in the novel of Jane Eyre, as Rochester turns out to be the love of Jane’s life. At first she finds him rather impolite and cold-hearted, but soon they become kindred souls.