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Stories. Something that can reveal new ideas about a person\u2019s life. Something that can inspire generations of readers and authors. Something that can shape our world and let it become what it is today \u2013 through several aspects of adaptations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over time, there have been many stories that have been classics for many years, decades, and even centuries \u2013 from Alice in Wonderland to The Chronicles of Narnia. One great example of a classic piece of literature is Little Women: a beloved tale that has been passed down over many generations through films, television, and theatre. However, the main and original story remains to be the best at heart. Written by Louisa May Alcott in 1861, Little Women follows the story of the four March sisters \u2013 Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy \u2013 who are overcoming adversity in times of the American civil war and going childhood to womanhood. Overall, the novel discusses the main themes of feminism, poverty, gender roles, love, and what it was like to be a woman in the past centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Surprisingly, this story and its characters were based on personal events and people from Alcott\u2019s own life, since she was one of four sisters growing up in the 19th<\/sup> century. Through the book, the author also discussed the ideas of breaking many gender stereotypes, as Jo March \u2013 the main protagonist – experiences the hardship of being the \u201ctomboy\u201d and writer of the household. Back in the late 1860\u2019s, women were not expected to write as many novels then male authors, but Louisa broke this stereotype due to the book’s success and her inspiration to other female authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This one timeless novel has also inspired many adaptations in television, theatre, and film industries, ever since the 1910\u2019s, where there was both a theatrical production and a silent film version of Little Women, highlighting a movement of women\u2019s acting roles. Following this was a major Little Women movie in 1933, which was nominated for multiple film awards and became a box office hit of its time. Then, there was the 1949 film, which was in full colour and featured many big stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh. After this adaptation was the BBC and NBC mini-series versions, displaying a high passion for adapting the beloved story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later, Japanese \u2018anime\u2019 also had a spin off on Little Women, too! In the 1980\u2019s, Japan\u2019s Fugi network released a 48-episode series of the story, which was soon translated to English. Following this came the 1994 movie, which captured more of the warmth of the original story and features mahor movie stars including Winona Rider, Christian Bale, Kristen Dunst and Clair Danes. And lastly, in recent times, there has been the Little Women feature film from 2019. This was directed by Barbie\u2019s Greta Gerwig featured Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, and many more brilliant actors. This version of Little Women has been nominated for many awards \u2013 as well as having many fantastic reviews by film critics. In my subjective opinion, this movie is indeed a must watch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Little Women is only one of many classic novels and stories that have been passed down from generation to generation through books, movies, and other forms of adaptations. And through these adaptations, Little Women remains to be an inspiring story for everyone to enjoy. It remains to be a story for many generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ruby C, Year 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stories. Something that can reveal new ideas about a person\u2019s life. Something that can inspire generations of readers and authors. Something that can shape our world and let it become what it is today \u2013 through several aspects of adaptations. Over time, there have been many stories that have been classics for many years, decades, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[19],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9086","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/9086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/oxley-college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}