A study of the film adaptation entitled the scarlet letter by roland joffe in literary context

Art evokes aesthetic delights. It becomes an expression of art maker’s temperament. Literature and its film adaptation are distinctive forms of art. Film adaptation inherits certain things of literature like any art inherits the things of another art. Any form of art is beautiful and most appealing to human mind. It has its own charm, merit and short comings also. Literature and its film adaptation are forms of art like painting, sculpture, music, singing and dancing. Novel is regarded as the most realistic and applauded form of literature. The popular social, moral or political stories have been largely considered for film adaptation in Hollywood and Bollywood. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is most famous book in the history of American Literature. It has been adapted into film by fourteen cinema people. Among them, the film adaptation entitled The Scarlet Letter made by Roland Joffe has been in great name and fame. There are similarities as well as variable between Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and its film adaptation of the same title by Joffe even though one is based on another. The film maker desires to inherit certain things from the source book but some variables are essential to fulfill the demand of the film media and the psyche of contemporary viewers. The film maker contributes the story in new moral and advanced technique. The story existed in film adaptation to be based on novel is appealing and refreshing with the help of appropriate technical resources. It aims to obtain handsome financial output to the film maker. The present paper has pointed out the similar points of the novel entitled The Scarlet Letter to be reflected in its film adaptation. It is desirable and inevitable to transmit certain things of the novel into its film adaptation.