This book was an enormous success, not because it's a great love story, although it is, but because it was a story about a strong woman triumphing over a man in a man's world. All other versions of this film concentrate only on the love story aspect and miss the empowered woman aspect. Everyone always raved to me about the Joan Fontaine/Orson Welles version, but in that one, just as Jane is at her lowest point with no hope in sight, Mr. Rochester saves her. In the book and this A&E version, Jane is in a self-sufficient position with other prospects of love when SHE decides to return to Mr. Rochester. I also have to say that the humor in this film is done in exactly the correct way to endear us to the main characters.
Review of Jane Eyre
