The Changes Events of Adaptation from The Painted Veil novel by W. Somerset Maugham into Film by John Curran

Abstract

This research analyze of the adaptation from intrinsic events of The Painted Veil novel and film. The transformation between the novel and film bring up the different ideology, because novel and film are different media. According to Hutcheon, adapters have motives to adapt the literary work. Qualitative research is used in this analysis since the object of analysis are novel and film with comparative method. The data are in the form of sign through words or sentences and images. The data are divided into primary and secondary data. The primary data are taken from narratives structure in novel and images in film that present the changes of adaptation. The secondary data are taken from some books, literary review which related to the topic discussed, such as thesis, and literature journal. There are two goals from this research, first, to describe and explain what are the changes or transformation events between novel into film. Last is to find out something beyond the transformation. I use the Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon and Mythology by Roland Barthes as method to analyze the transformation and find out the ideology behind the novel and film. To do the first goal, collected data are compared using comparative method. After finding the differences of the transformation events between novel and film, Mythologies by Roland Barthes is used as bridge to find out what lies beyond the works in two different media. Moreover, Myth analysis is done to find ideologies behind the transformation from novel into film. Ideologies that have been found between novel and film will help to find something or motive beyond the adaptation. The result of the research shows some ideologies in the novel and the film. Ideologies come out from novel are feminism, liberalism, primordialism, and humanism. Ideologies come out from the adaptation are patriarchy, liberalism, and multiculturalism. For all ideologies in both of them bring up the cultural capital motive beyond the adaptation. The cultural phenomenon is brought out from text narratives through the habitual condition between the western and eastern thinking toward the society perspective. Meanwhile the cultural phenomenon from the film is brought out through western thinking and action to make cross relationship in tolerating and appreciating the eastern for getting legitimacy superior toward the powerfulness of superior in society, include the powerfulness of men toward the woman in patriarchy issues.