The document discusses potential ways to adapt the short story 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant to different settings and times. It considers moving the story from France to London and modernizing the setting to present-day France. It also discusses expanding scenes and changing details like names and currency to fit the new environments.
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The Necklace Ideas
The document discusses potential ways to adapt the short story 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant to different settings and times. It considers moving the story from France to London and modernizing the setting to present-day France. It also discusses expanding scenes and changing details like names and currency to fit the new environments.
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The houseworker
brings the wife a letter
from her rich friend and Have a voice over from she says in passing wife’s perspective about that she couldn’t bare how she’s sad that her life to visit anymore isn’t better because of how sad she was after
Keep it as a period piece-
keep it in France, remove some of the descriptive The Necklace writing (and use what is left as a voice over in Update the setting from Mme. Georges pre-revolutionary France Rampouneau’s head) to modern France- will have to change some of the language to match the time setting and have to change the currency to Instead of having the euros location in Paris, move it to London and change the accents, most likely will Expand on the have to change the scenes at the ball- names to make them add dialogue. more English. Will also have to change the currency from Francs to shillings and pounds