Fiction in Cinema and Cinema in Fiction

ABSTRACT ”The study of literature casts light on the meanings in the film and the study of the film can illuminate the full value of the literature”-Ronald Perrier, “From Fiction to Film” Fiction is a print of words extended over the pages of the text. Words or signifiers indicate signified or meanings refer to things in their absence. So is the case with the cinema that projects shadows on the silver screen through the visual aids. This paper aims at exploring the similarities and differences between the Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter ” and the cin-ematic version of “The Scarlet Letter ” by Ronald Joffe”. The novel is versioned into a cinema bearing the same title. “The Scarlett Letter ” is a novel of Romance written by Hawthorne that unfolds the plot of the Puritan, in human and cruel, moral code of conduct imposed on the innocent lovers. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter ” is famous for presenting some of the greatest interpretive difficulties in all of American Literature. The novel is his greatest accomplished work in American literary history