With the examples given above, there is a slight difference between Robert Stevenson’s adaptation and the original novel by Charlotte Bronte. (Bailey, 400) There has never been life without problems. Life is usually tough and obstacles are always encountered in the process living. So, Jane was maltreated because her parents were dead, and she was seen as a poor girl. People usually want to associate with other people who are of the same class to them. In Stevenson’s adaptation of the “Jane Eyre” story, the problems of Jane Eyre are shown as norms of a class-oriented society. After Jane’s employer stumbled from his horse, he accused Jane of been an evil person and the reason why he stumbled from his horse. (Rowland, 281) Jane’s extended family perceived her as an evil child and this same notion of Jane been an evil child manifested again when her employer stumbled from his horse. In the original novel of “Jane Eyre” written by Charlotte Bronte, Jane was portrayed as an evil child and she was treated badly for this reason.

Out of all the adaptations, Stevenson’s 1943 adaptation is considered the best because his adaptation has a unique and slightly different pattern of the Jane Eyre story. “Jane Eyre” is a novel which was originally written by Charlotte Bronte and it has been adapted into film 3 times. Comparing the film “Jane Eyre” to Bronte’s original novel The problems which Jane faced as an adult and a child will be discussed in this essay. Bronte’s original story narrates Jane’s story as an orphan who finds joy at the end of the story but Stevenson’s film tells the story of Jane as a person who went through a lot of pain and discrimination but did not give up. Apart from Stevenson’s film not maintaining a first narrator as the novel does, it is arguably the best adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel.Ī central theme that Stevenson’s film emphasizes which is not a prominent theme in the original story by Charlotte Bronte is Jane’s perseverance all through the story. This comparative essay will highlight the differences between Stevenson’s 1943 film of “Jane Eyre” and Charlotte Bronte’s novel. While in the home of the Reeds, Jane was physically and emotionally abused by her aunt Mrs. But the Reeds did not see Jane as a blood relation rather she was treated as an outsider. Reed was a sister to Jane’s father and her family was the only family Jane had so she went to live with them.

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