Cultural Ideals versus Woman’s Passion: A textual analysis of 'Jane Eyre' (Cary Fukunaga, 2011)
Abstract
The hypothesis we put forward in this paper is that in the reworking of the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847), the film’s screenwriter Moira Buffini and filmmaker Cary Fukunaga do two things: first, they recover and highlight the interweaving between violence and sexuality that characterizes literary and cinematographic stories belonging to the female Gothic genre. Secondly, through their screenwriting and directorial adaptation, they update that genre, insofar as they deepen in the structural opposition between cultural ideals on the one hand, such as female purity or women's independence and, on the other, the passionate heterosexual desire of some women.
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