Review of Hutcheon's A Theory of Adaptation

Linda Hutcheon argues that adaptations are often considered as second-line art forms, since they are always originated from other pieces of arts, hence critics and reviewers usually compare these works with the original ones. When people talk about adaptations, most of the time they think about literary texts like a novel or short story being remade as a big screen movie, or a television show and opinions are usually that these remade stories are less in value, then the original ones, although there are other forms of art, like ballet, or opera which are less attacked by public opinion. This might be because, people tend to think about texts like novels and such superior to any other art form because of it is among the first ones of their kind, and it lets the reader to use their imagination and create a world of their own, while movies take this experience away from the viewer. The reason of the popularity of adaptations nowadays might be explained with financial facts. It is simply because if something made profit and was popular once, there is a high possibility of it will do the...