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This 7 page analysis compares the film and novel versions loosely on the thesis of the similarities and distinct differences in the two mediums. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and the film versions of The French Lieutenants Woman discover distinct but in some respects similar ways to suggest the workings of historical change, imagined particularly as an alteration over
time of social values and cultural practice. In the film, this is accomplished by abrupt juxtapositions of the Victorian narrative with the modern perspective of the narrator. In the book,
it is represented as three possible endings. The time period between the two stories is one hundred years. In that time, the mores
had changed completely to the point where in 1867 a woman who had an illicit sexual encounter was considered a whore and should be banished from society, but by 1970
she was a forward thinking woman in control of any situation. This was particularly clear in the film. In these distinct ways, Fowles, Pinter and Reisz make the two counter
cultures fall back in upon each other, each one addressing a time period, but each addressing within that time period the issue of a change in the thinking minds of
women. Background In the novel, this fact is not as clear in the film.
The film is allowed the benefit of constant juxtapositions out of place and time. The book depends on the narration of author which is full of his interpretations of social
science and its meaning within both worlds. In the movie, the narrator is more approachable as Anna, who also plays her mirror image as Sarah in the film. We recognize
the visual cues Reisz brings into the movie immediately, as well as understand that Anna is narrating the tale that mirrors that of the mindset of Sarah as she would
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