This document summarizes the similarities between the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Both novels follow a young woman who battles obstacles in her life, including difficult relationships. While Rebecca was not explicitly based on Jane Eyre, it shares many Gothic romance elements and themes with the earlier novel, including an anxious first-person narrator and a brooding male love interest. The document examines reviews of the 2020 Netflix film adaptation of Rebecca that note how it compares to Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 adaptation and fails to live up to the original novel.

1. Hello!
I am BHUMIKA MAHIDA
Subject:The Postcolonial Studies
Topic: similarities between Jane Eyre
And Rebecca
M.A. Sem-3
Department of English MKBU
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2. Similarities between
Jane Eyre and Rebecca

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Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and
poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters
who survived into adulthood and whose
novels became classics of English literature.
She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January
1831, aged 14 years.

4. Jane Eyre:
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• Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published
under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith,
Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the
following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.
• The novel follows the story of Jane, a seemingly plain and simple
girl as she battles through life’s struggles. Jane has many obstacles
in her life – her cruel and abusive Aunt Reed, the grim conditions at
Lowood school, her love for Rochester and Rochester’s marriage to
Bertha.

5. Rebecca as NETFLIX’S series

6. Rebecca:
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Rebecca is a 2020 British romantic
thriller film directed by Ben
Wheatley from a screenplay by Jane
Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna
Waterhouse. Based on the 1938
novel Rebecca by Daphne du
Maurier, the film stars Lily James,
Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott
Thomas, Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd,
and Sam Riley.

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Rebecca was released in select
theatres on 16 October 2020, and
digitally on Netflix five days later. It
received mixed reviews from critics,
who compared the film
unfavourably to the 1940 version
directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Rebecca(2020)

8. DE WINTERS TALE Is Rebecca on Netflix a true story
and is it based on Jane Eyre?
✘ REBECCA, written by
romantic novelist
Daphne Du Maurier,
is a novel that has
captured the
imagination of
readers since it was
first published in
1938.
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9. Official trailer 👉

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11. Is it based on Jane Eyre?
✘ Many critics have noted the similarities between Rebecca
and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which was published
100 years prior to Du Maurier’s novel.
✘ Rebecca is not explicitly based on Jane Eyre, but Du
Maurier may have been influenced by Brontë’s novel.
✘ There are certainly similarities between the two novels –
both are written in Gothic Romance styles.
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12. ✘ Both the unnamed narrator of Rebecca and Jane in
Jane Eyre have similar voices – they’re both anxious
and self-deprecating.
✘ Even the two male love interests, Rochester and
Maxim de Winter are both brooding and dark
characters.
✘ So, although not explicitly related, Rebecca has picked
up on many of Jane Eyre’s tropes.
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Rebecca movie review: Lily James as Mrs de Winter and
Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter in a still from the new
Netflix film.(Kerry Brown / Netflix)
Rebecca movie review(Hindustan Times |
By Rohan Naahar)

14. Netflix’s Rebecca flattens a classic : review
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It’s hard to live up to
Hitchcock, but the new
film falls short in more
ways than one
By JoshuaRivera on October 24,
2020 10:00 am
(Kerry Brown/NETFLIX)

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✘ JoshuaRivera. “Netflix’s Rebecca Flattens a Classic.” The Verge, 24 Oct. 2020,
www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/10/24/21531089/netflix-rebecca-
review-hitchcock-disney-remake.
✘ Kristin James. “Rebecca Review – Overdressed and Underpowered Romantic
Thriller.”The Guardian, 17 Oct. 2020,
www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/15/rebecca-review-ben-wheatley-
armie-hammer-lily-james-kristin-scott-thomas.
✘ Naahar Rohan. “Rebecca Movie Review: Netflix Delivers a Dazzlingly Pretty
Film Starring Distractingly Pretty People.” Hindustan Times, 21 Oct.
2020,www.hindustantimes.com/hollywood/rebecca-movie-review-netflix-
delivers-a-dazzlingly-pretty-film-starring-distractingly-pretty-people/story-
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