Mark Baglien

Literature
Padre
8/27/2010

Question 1

Wuthering heights have been called a book that is like none other;

which could explain why it is difficult to make a movie that is strongly

based on the book. Jane Eyre can be made into more of a romance, with a

happy ending that doesn’t end in a main character dying.

Why is Wuthering Heights a hard book to turn into a movie? There

are two reasons I can think of. Firstly is very difficult for even the best

actors to correctly perform the parts of Heathcliff and Catherine, there ever

changing emotions, and there relationship with each other is complicated to

say the least. Secondly, times have changed dramatically; the dark setting in

the moor country of England is not appealing in anything but horror movies.

These two combined with the fact that many directors do not understand the

plot of the book, and so they try to make it into a movie more appealing for

Hollywood.

Jane Eyre can easily be turned into a romance, albeit one with its dark

moments. After a hard life, Jane Eyre ends up marrying the man of her

dreams, and lives happily ever after. It has the makings of all the good

romances.
 When you compare Jane Eyre to Catherine from Wuthering Heights,

you find yourself thinking how much more of a normal person Jane Eyre is

as when compared to Catherine. Likewise when you compare Rochester to

Heathcliff, there isn’t even a comparison for who is the more ideal character

for a movie. The problem with Wuthering Heights is that it can’t be made

into a Romance, an action film, a horror film, or any other modern day

classification for a movie. (282)

Question 2

Jane Eyre has parts that are unexpected to say the least. There are

parts that may seem a strange turn of events when first reading, however

they all seem to form into part of the plot when you finish reading the book.

Rochester seems like a very nice guy, but why would he lock his wife

up in an attic, and try to marry Jane without even mentioning it to her. This

is just a question that crosses my mind in passing. I’m not sure why he

wouldn’t mention it to her, or why he would lock her on the third floor of his

house; I’m sure being locked up in a secure room with no contact with the

outside world didn’t help her condition. Why did Jane run from Rochester, if

she loved him as much as the book makes out, you would expect them to
figure something out, where she didn’t have to start begging on the street.

Jane obviously had an uncle at this point, why didn’t she ask him for help?

Instead she is taken in by three random siblings she meets.

I can she how these could be distracting to some, but I find they help

build up the plot. There may be parts of the book that seem unrealistic to

people of modern times. In the times that this book was written, many things

were different. People and even doctors were not sure what a physiological

disorder was, much less how to treat it. So when Rochester locked his wife

up in a sealed room, he may have been afraid or unsure what was best for

her. (273)