To create a modern adaptation out of an older work is a challenging task. Talented writers must devise different ways to keep a story faithful without turning the audience’s attention away. One adaptation that successfully captures and takes a creative approach is Easy A. Easy A is an American teen comedy film partially inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. Written by Bert V. Royal and directed by Will Gluck, the story follows a teenage girl after telling a white lie about losing her virginity and how it effects her life and those around her. The film premiered in 2010, winning both a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Comedy Film and an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance. Created as a modern adaptation to The Scarlet Letter, Easy A invents a creative and comedic twist of the
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Whether isolated by space or by relationships, the theme is applied to distance the main character from their community. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester is shunned by the townspeople and finds solace in a small cottage away from others. In particular, with determination to endure her punishment, she accepts herself to be “shut out from the sphere of human charities”. Hester believes as “lonely as was [her] situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself,” found it necessary in order to complete her trial (94-95). She recognizes her lonely existence, as relationships with other people are interrupted as they judge and shame her. Likewise, the film uses isolation to further the main character’s separation. As Olive bears more lies, she causes fractures between her various friendships. She accepts the rumor and endures the expense it has on her reputation, alienating herself from her best friend and teacher. Olive also becomes detached as she becomes more of a scapegoat than a person, used as a lie by others for their own
Whether isolated by space or by relationships, the theme is applied to distance the main character from their community. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester is shunned by the townspeople and finds solace in a small cottage away from others. In particular, with determination to endure her punishment, she accepts herself to be “shut out from the sphere of human charities”. Hester believes as “lonely as was [her] situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself,” found it necessary in order to complete her trial (94-95). She recognizes her lonely existence, as relationships with other people are interrupted as they judge and shame her. Likewise, the film uses isolation to further the main character’s separation. As Olive bears more lies, she causes fractures between her various friendships. She accepts the rumor and endures the expense it has on her reputation, alienating herself from her best friend and teacher. Olive also becomes detached as she becomes more of a scapegoat than a person, used as a lie by others for their own