Should some classics be re-written?
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Should some classics be re-written?
But the same books are also read by people of the future who use the same language but speak it differently.
Therefore it may be hard to get the message written in books because the readers find the language used hard.
Do you think that some classics need to be re-written by using a much simpler language so that everyone can understand with ease?
If so name the classic that you wish would have been written in an easier language?
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And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts
Shakespeare-As You Like It Act II, Scene VII
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This is a great point and it morphs into another argument, is there ever really an "original" classic work? I don't believe that any idea is ever truly original because who knows what people have come up in the past with and simply never documented it (Tom Stoppard's play, Arcadia, is the perfect example of this). Instead, I believe that what makes something a classic is that the text has been considered irreplicable because it represents a version of events or a story in a way that resonates with readers. Therefore, it's not the classic story itself that can't be rewritten. It's the author's style and spin on the story that makes it truly unique. So I say if you've got the guts to create your own version of a classic story then go for it.eagermagic wrote: ↑15 May 2019, 20:46 What a great question! The answer is: whether we like it or nor, they get rewritten all the time. Also: re-edited, recycled, repackaged. The most obvious example is the reworking of classics for younger audiences; you might also included comic book versions of classics, stage and film adaptations and so on. My first encounter with The Scarlet Letter was a 5th grade comic book -- because adultery and sin are so important to fifth graders, it goes without saying. This practice is so common that we can barely recognize it without expert help. Take good old Billy Shakespeare himself, nary an original plot in the whole collection and we can usually identify where this most artistic of thieves stole his ideas. It gets deeper; experts can identify various language based threads in the Bible and can thus determine (this is a scholarly idea, not a faith based one) exactly how this central book, Western Civilization's founding document, was a massive rewrite job. It makes one rethink just what exactly artists do, how they shape old material, to make original art.
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