Pride and Prejudice from Yellowish Papers to Graphic Dimensions

Abstract

Literature has been always a relief for human mind and a medium that helped him expressing himself and breaking free. Accordingly Man has been always seeking for a way to bring his thoughts to a more real world. As a response, he succeeded to develop inventions and creations that allowed him to convert his ideas from words to visual and audible forms. In particular, cinematography came out as an industry and a narrative art that enabled Man recording his imagination and then reflecting it to the outside world. Moreover, the latter was an inauguration to a new composed art. In other words, the very operation was an inspiration to bring back literary canons from the past centuries to the modern world. In essence, the act was a beginning of a new artistic genre known as film adaptation which is primarily based on converting literary works into cinematic productions. However, despite the fact that film adaptation came up as a tempting narrative art that would allow the world to see and experience what they have been reading, it has soon become a controversial phenomenon. As a matter of debate, film adaptation has always been questioned whether it projects a clearer image of the adapted literary works. Therefore, the aim of this research is finding a sufficient answer to extinguish this controversy. Seeking answers, Pride and Prejudice; a filmed version by Andrew Davies is tackled through a comparative approach with its original written form to draw a conclusion that film adaptation can take a literary classic work and projects it in a much clearer and impacting way.