![]() ![]() This Gothic-adjacent genre lends to the overall Gothic tone of The Wife Upstairs. In addition to the Gothic, Hawkins has put a noir slant to Brontë's work by including a murder mystery to the novel's premise. Three crucial Victorian Gothic tropes of Jane Eyre include the madwoman in the attic, excessive narrative emotion, and the intimation of haunted spaces. Therefore, the perpetuation of the key Gothic tropes of Jane Eyre is essential to the novel's adaptation. ![]() One of the significant topos in Jane Eyre is that of the Victorian Gothic. Still, Hawkins' plot diverges from the original text quite drastically to update it for a contemporary adult audience. ![]() The consistency between Jane Eyre and The Wife Upstairs is found in the names of many characters and settings. However, engaging the past through literature requires a sense of consistency between original texts and their adaptations. Retellings have progressed from simple verbatim reiteration to complex plot evolution retellings have been able to engage with the past by righting past cultural wrongs, give the oppressed a voice, and showcase modern ideologies. The act of retelling is a tradition that has traversed the centuries. In her newest novel, The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins puts her spin on her retelling of Charlotte Brontë's canonical classic Jane Eyre. ![]()
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