Romeo And Juliet And Warm Bodies: A Comparative Analysis

In the post-apocalyptic remake version of Romeo and Juliet, the movie “Warm Bodies” (2013) by Jonathan Levine, Julie is the strong female lead who must decide between love and morals. In the classic romantic novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre is the strong female lead who must decide between love and morals. These two works of art, although significantly different in style and genre, both consist of strong, independent female leads that refuse to compromise their identity in the name of love. A common theme in both Jane and Julie’s childhoods was the lack of a loving parental figure. For Julie, her dad’s distant and workaholic attitude led her to grow a sense of independence and become self-sufficient as a teenager. In Jane’s case, the very beginning of the novel sets up the isolation she feels from the other children as she talks about the rainy day spent inside and the exclusion she faced from her cousins and their joint activities. This contrast between Jane and the other children right off the bat is parallel to Julie’s introduction in “Warm Bodies” where her isolation is portrayed by her joining the army as well as being bitter towards her father and potentially her boyfriend.

Jane learned about the injustices of the world when she was growing up in Gateshead and was treated unfairly by her cousins and her aunt. After Gateshead, her experiences with injustice continued as she saw the inhumane way the students at Lowood were treated. These encounters with the injustices of the world continued for Jane in every place she went, including Thorngate. Similarly, Julie faced her own encounters with injustice as her boyfriend treated her coldly, her father was not a loving parent, she was constantly underestimated, and she had to fight hard to prove to the human race that her knowledge of the corpses was valuable and