How stories travel over time.
The purpose of this essay is to examine how individual stories travel over time.
Select one or two episodes from Monkey (Journey to the West) OR Twelfth night. Examine the same episode/s from a 20th or 21st century adaptation (suggestions follow). Compare and contrast with the objective of discovering how and WHY the story has changed.
nb. You may examine one episode over three different works, if you choose.
Suggestions (the work must be available in English or have English subtitles–also, NO VIDEO GAMES.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_media_adaptations_of_Journey_to_the_West
Please do not answer “because the times/eras/civilizations are different”, and leave it at that. Obviously, that is a part of the answer, but it is not all. Please consider what specific impacts these differences have had on storytelling.