Kim jest Gilbert Blythe? Portrety bohatera w powieści Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza Lucy Maud Montgomery i serialu Ania, nie Anna Moiry Walley-Beckett
Who is Gilbert Blythe? The Portraits of the Character in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Novel Anne of Green Gables and Moira Walley-Beckett’s TV Series Anne with an E

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article attempts to characterise and compare two creations of Gilbert Blythe – the literary and the TV series ones. Apparently, Gilbert’s character in Moira Walley-Beckett’s TV series (2017–Present) has a different function than in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel (1908). Gilbert is a teenager, a pupil at the Avon­lea school, and a boy who competes at school with the titular character of Anne of Green Gables. In the book, we get to know him only through Anne Shirley’s eyes – basing on what she says and thinks about him – and these insights are more opin­ions than facts. In the TV series, however, Gilbert is shown differently, as the crea­tors of Anne with an E devote more screen time to developing this character and to bestowing him with new personality traits. Thanks to this, the relation between Anne and Gilbert becomes deeper and more realistic. The comparative analysis of the character’s creations in both cultural texts is conducted with the use of, inter alia, the tools of gender studies.

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