Bartleby Element Adaptation

Response Paper 1 Some of the essential elements that have been modified of changed in order to turn a short story into a movie are going to be analysed, as well as the way the characters are introduced, the information that the spectator has, and the techniques which are used to represent Bartleby’s withdrawal from any kind of contact with reality and with the world. The adaptation I choose to integrate in my film version is an Analogy film adaptation. The adaptation of a short story into a movie implies certain changes. A book cannot be adapted in the exact same style and some details must be changed. The point is to convey the main themes, elements and events in a way as accurate as possible. The essential elements that are needed to be integrated in my film is the use of the language, the time of place (1850’s), the lawyer and Bartleby, the wall, the Dead Letter Post of Washington, Bartleby’s resistance, and his final days where he found sleeping with the kings and counselors. I am using these elements because I wanted to keep the film faithful as possible to the novel. By faithful I mean that I wanted to keep the theme of the story. I believe that these elements portray the main theme of the novel and these elements are essential to depict the life of Bartleby. Other elements such as the point of view, the office world, characters like Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut, and the lawyers description of his two copyist and his assistant do not support the theme. These elements are the least of my worries for it does not depict Bartleby’s life nor do those elements give any reason as to why Bartleby is disconnected from the world. Therefore, these elements are not essential to my film adaptation. The description of Bartleby is striking. He is a person who seems already dead. Pale from indoors work, motionless, without any expression or evidence of human passion in him at all. He is already a man beaten. A way that I could translate the essential elements