Comparing Jane Eyre and Rebecca
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- What similarities did you notice between Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier? Both English novels contain Gothic motifs within a coming-of-age story, and they share a number of other elements:
0:00 Jane Eyre (1847) vs. Rebecca (1938)
1:23 The Narrator (Jane Eyre vs. the second Mrs. de Winter)
2:24 The Hero (Edward Rochester vs. Maxim de Winter)
2:53 The First Wife (Bertha vs. Rebecca)
3:35 The House (Thornfield Hall vs. Manderley)
As Joan Fontaine has portrayed both protagonists in two major film adaptations, we use scenes from the films to explore the connection between the two stories.
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They're both marvelous books, and the main character finding their agency is well done in both novels. The difference I see is that Jane has built her confidence over her years at the school she was exiled to, where the unnamed narrator in 'Rebecca' doesn't come into her own until the character of the first Mrs. DeWinter is revealed.
And then Joan Fontaine did the movie, "Suspicion". She must have felt she was trapped in a loop. All similar.
I would love to see you make a video about the different versions of Rebecca seen as though a new Rebecca was put on Netflix this week
Yes! With the comparison to the book!
I guess it's kinda off topic but do anybody know a good website to stream new series online?
This is an insightful comparative analysis of the two novels and your editing is top notch.
I love both novels but didn't see them entirely like this... Jane Eyre has much more personality than No name, Edward Rochester I have always found more interesting than cold fish Maxim de Winter and as Bertha Mason's personality was quickly brushed, Rebecca is the only living human who stands out of the pages of the novel who bears her name, like you said. I never thought of her as a psychopath (but Mrs Danvers... lol !), rather as someone who lived her life fully even if she wasn't nice. No name may say that she's happy, but de Winter and her seem to be immobile, frozen in time, monotonous indeed. I enjoyed your video very much, thanks ! I rewatched Jane Eyre recently with plain (lol again !) Joan Fontaine, now I want to rewatch Rebecca :)
I have read both books and never made this connection before. Thanks!
Great video!
Loved the video! Joan Fontaine is lovely and a great actress, because of that i love the movies more than the books. But both of books are great. And Jane is a more enjoyable character.
You're by far one of my favorite channels on youtube! Love the content, keep it up!
I love both books and it's almost as if Daphne Du Maurier wrote Rebecca as a modern version of the Jane Eyre story. I absolutely love both stories, both have elements of the far fetched about them to make the narrative work - in Jane Eyre the physical 'casting out' and being found nearly lifeless on the moors and by a strage coincedence being related to the finder etc etc - and in Rebecca, the actual meeting of the subservient and servile companion seems too unlikely a match for the debonair Maxim. But both are wonderfully crafted stories and always in my 'go to' reads. If you haven't tried it, Rebeccas Story is a very well crafted follow on to Rebecca
Rebecca is so much more bleak, in its ending, than Jane Eyre. You do an admirable job of finding the similar tropes between them.
Very well written and edited. Thanks.
Will you be doing another compare and contrast to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.
I too felt the same regarding the similarity in the story
Read both and I will soon reread Jane Eyre for the course material in English, thank you for this amazing comparison
Joan Fontaine definitely got typecasted as the neglected timid wife with Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Suspicion, and Letter From An Unknown Woman...
Amazing video 🙌🏽
Very nicely done comparison, thank you.
I love your videos so much ❤
Although I've never seen nor read Rebecca, they seem to have quite similar stories! I personally like Jane Eyre more for what I can see from the video, the novel accurately describes how a woman learns to put herself first through her experiences and follow her own intuition and instincts and that's really inspiring!
It's also Jane's life itself that moves me pretty much everytime I hear about it. I've learned so much from this novel also by studying it in university and it's one of my top favorites!
Both classics AND amazing stories! I love them both.😊
Thank you for this interesting comparison. Now I want to re-read both books!
Quality content
Loved both of these movies
This must be the greatest movies in history
what i would realllllly love to see come to the screen is Charlotte Bronte's last never published until about a decade ago novel, Emma Brown, completed by Clare Boylan. had Charlotte not died i childbirth, Emma Brown would have been the first truly feminist novel.
Great analytical review/comparison video you've created. You did an excellent job explaining the two. For Me personally I don't like that Daphne Du Maurier "borrowed" so heavily from Charlotte Bronte. Overall, both stories are just alright for me. I'm looking for stories that put a young woman in a position where she has no choice but to take on a leadership role and against all odds and other people's opinion of her, she not only succeed but excel. So much so that people's opinions start to change and thus the future is rewritten before it begins.
Also she remains very feminine and not become a bullying witch. A woman who is strong but tender a warrior but also a wise Empress. Personally, I'm not into romantic goth.
I've seen both movies and like them very much. I've read both books, but found the first half of Rebecca painfully slow and dull. Jane Eyre was a more interesting book.
Interesting perspective. I do see similarities
Love both novel and movies
I saw the two movies and they look different for me. I have read Rebecca novel and the best version is the miniseries with Charles Dance and Emilia Fox for me,
.....the film adaptions of both books should be viewed only in Black & White, certainly not in colour under any circumstance as this totally eliminates the Gothic antiquity of both book and film.....both Welles and Olivier deliver superb performances against Joan Fontaine's fragile characters.....
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I have read Jane Eyre a few times and seen different versions of movies. It was very interesting all the different contrast in the movies. It is one of my favorite books. I have only seen Rebecca once and have never read the book. I felt like Jane Eyre was never a victim. But the girl in Rebecca was. Maybe that is why I prefer Jane so much more. Also even though the leading man in Rebecca is very famous and acclaimed, I always felt he was acting. I could never get past that. Whereas Orson Wells seemed to be Mr Rochester and not an actor. Does that make any sense? :-)
I thought I was going crazy when I read Jane Eyre I was like am I reading Rebecca ? 😭
I used to confuse these two all the time when I was younger!
Judith Anderson was fabulously creepy.
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both find a rich husband to marry, which makes any young girl reading it feel the security of this dreamy outcome, someone older, protective and rich but yet it turns out that they are incomplete as men
and that they can be made complete if you take control.
Did You know that Rebecca was plagiarized from a Brazilian novel that had come out the year before?
Which Brazilian novel?
@@andyisdead "La sucesora" by Carolina Nabuco.
Jane Eyre wasn't a big hit in it's day. Hitchcock "borrowed" Jane Eyre's visual style and turned Rebecca into a Best Picture Oscar winner.