 What is the relationship between literature and film?
 Is it possible to adapt a literary work to screen? In other words, is it possible to narrate
the same story in such different languages?
 What do we mean when we speak about “adapting” a literary work to screen?
 What do we mean by “fidelity” to the text?
 Is adaptation a “translation” or rather a “re-interpretation”?
 How do we understand the relationship between the original source and its adaptation?
 What is the impact of adapting literary classics to a modern context?
 Is the adaptation a straight or a loose interpretation of the novel?
 Can the adaptation stand alone, or is it necessary to have read the novel to understand the
film?
 Does the adaptation capture the novel’s formal elements: the theme, characterization,
style, tone, and plot of the novel?
 When the screenwriter and/or director changes any of the formal elements of the novel, is
the overall message retained?
 What does the film omit or add? What is the significance of these changes?