Could you please give me feedback on the following introduction and first paragraph (can't be bothered typing out the rest). Please be as critical as you possibly can
[INTRODUCTION]
‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ is a play written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1892. There have been numerous alterations of this classic, one of which is a 2002 movie directed by Mike Barker, ‘A Good Woman’. In this adaptation, most of the plot was kept the same with slight changes, but the timeline, setting, structure and the genre of the film was changed drastically in comparison to Wilde’s text.
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Don't comment on the set out of the first three lines, as this was an expectation of the teacher :>The timeline of a text is defined as the period of time that the text runs over.
The play ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ runs over a 24 hour period.
Barker’s ‘A Good Woman’ was set over numerous weeks.
Oscar Wilde has chosen this timeline to suit the storyline and help convey his intended point. Plays are made to transmit a message to the viewer on morality and question their own morals. In this play, his message was that you should not be judgemental and that simple actions can alter your status and others, in terms of reputation, which was highly valued at the time. The audience revelled in this as the upper class viewers liked to view themselves as vulnerable and the lower class viewers loved how it displayed a rich upper class person being reduced to nothing in a matter of hours. The play demonstrates this as the actions of one character causes problems with others.
However, in ‘A Good Woman’, the plot is set out over a number of weeks. Barker has made this change to provide further background information and meet the viewer’s expectations of a movie. This was done by making aspects much more obvious and having events at regular intervals to keep the viewer engaged. These things need to be done in a movie as we have been conditioned from a young age to expect this. Another thing that was changed to suit the audience was the setting.