After love interest Professor Bhaer tells Jo he doesnвЂ™t like her work, she flies into a rage that feels a bit melodramatic compared to previous film versions. Jo is constantly punching Laurie and Amy flippantly reprimands him on multiple occasions for his idleness and poor decisions. Moreover, In GerwigвЂ™s adaptation, brilliant women seem to burst at the seams of their domestic roles more than they celebrate them. And yet, the deep religiosity of AlcottвЂ™s novel has been erased from modern retellings of AlcottвЂ™s classic. In the original classic, it is not in the fact that the March sisters experienced injustice, sickness, and pain that is remarkable, it is in how the sisters overcame these trials that is important. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, and may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength.

The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many but you can overcome and outlive them all, if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. She explains that it was turning to her вЂњfriend,вЂќ her Heavenly Father, that saved her when she lost a parent and when her husband went away to war. In the book, Marmee doesnвЂ™t focus on the fact that she is angry, but rather on what helps her overcome her anger: her faith in God. However, it seems Alcott wanted a different message to shine through the scene in her novel. Marmee admits, вЂњI am angry nearly every day of my life.вЂќ When asked by Time magazine if the line was meant to be emblematic of feminist rage, Gerwig commented: вЂњ If you strip away this pre-Victorian morality, what you have is ambitious, passionate, angry, sexual, interesting women who donвЂ™t fit into the boxes the world has given them. She explains that the Bible will be their guidebook for navigating lifeвЂ™s difficult journey, and that God will be their friend whom they can look to for joy, consolation, and power.ДЄ key scene in the 2019 film-borrowed from the novel-shows Jo discouraged because she has failed to control her temper once again. She draws an analogy to the book PilgrimвЂ™s Progress, telling her daughters that just like the characters in the book, they each have their own burdens, or their own weaknesses, to overcome.

In one of the novelвЂ™s earliest scenes, mother Marmee gifts her girls copies of the Bible. But AlcottвЂ™s novel reveals that the true source of the sisters endurance and stamina was their faith in God. In GerwigвЂ™s adaptation, itвЂ™s the strength of the March sisters that takes center stage: their wit, their independence, and their determination to succeed against all odds. Little Women is the story of the four March sisters-motherly Meg, independent Jo, selfless Beth, and artistic Amy- and their heartaches, joys, triumphs and failures as they grow up against the backdrop of the American Civil War.

These messages cannot be glossed over or forgotten if women today want to remain true to what Alcott was trying to convey with her landmark work. But by taking AlcottвЂ™s heartwarming story to вЂњ new feminist height s,вЂќ Gerwig has abandoned some of the critical themes that made the original 1868 novel so important, and timeless. The film boasts a stunning score by Alexandre Desplat, breathtaking cinematography, and a star-studded cast including Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, and Saoirse Ronan. ThereвЂ™s a lot to love in Greta GerwigвЂ™s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May AlcottвЂ™s timeless classic, Little Women.

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