Adaptation Of The Birth-Mark By Nathaniel Hawthorne

For my end of the semester project, the option I decided to pick is the adaptation paper. The idea of creating a new story from the original work is an interesting technique. For the adaptation study, I am rewriting the short story, “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but the story will be rewritten in modern day setting and era. The meaning behind the short story does have a strong impact on any generation because of the theme of the original work is accepting your flaws while nobody else can. Each generation has an “ideal” kind of beauty, and how what is beautiful are or not. I decided to rewrite Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story because beauty does change throughout the years, but people’s ideas of beauty does stay the same sometimes.
Like history does repeats itself, so does social problems. I will change the setting of “The Birth-Mark” from scientist’s home to a college setting. By changing the setting of the short story, the story can be more related to the audience, and the audience could image themselves inside the character’s shoes because of the present day’s setting. More college and high school students could understand Georgiana’s struggle of understanding why they have a birthmark or something else, which cannot fade away very easily unlike other bruises. The characters from the original work will be the main characters in the rewrite, but they will be college students, who are close friends from a class.
The short story “The Birth-Mark” is about a husband, who cannot accept a birthmark on his wife’s cheek, so the moral of the story is learning perfection does not live on Earth. From the original work, I will be using the characters, the shape of the birthmark, and the hidden purpose of the short story. The idea of someone not understanding there is not a perfect world without some imperfections, so the person criticizes someone’s imperfections to hide their own problems. In an article about “The Birth-Mark”, the author, Thomas J. Schoenberg, agrees with my idea of Georgiana risking her own life to get acceptances from someone, who is supposed to in love with her imperfections. Also, Georgiana could only be alive with her imperfections, so she has to depend on “her existence upon her appearance.” I have the skills to rewrite the story because I am a Creative Writing major, and I love to write short stories with a life lesson within the storyline. The project going need a lot of attention and time, but I know I can complete the project before the due date. Each story has a life lesson, but only certain people will realize what it is and learn from the life