Question

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.

Ophelia: My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to
re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them.
Read the adaptation of the excerpt.
Ophelia: I have some things here that I want to return to you. Please, take them
back.

What choice did the writer of this adaptation make?
A The writer changed the character’s demeanor.
B The writer altered Ophelia’s gender.
C The writer made the language more modern.
D The writer relocated the setting of the play.

Answer 1

C - the write made the language more modern

Answer 2

Answer: C) The writer made the language more modern.

Step-by-step explanation: Adapting a written work means changing some elements with the goal of making it more modern, more relatable to a specific culture, more understandable (for example when the adaptation is for children's books) or to make it compatible with another format (for example, adapting a novel, in order to make a movie). In the given example of an adaptation of the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet, we can see that the author chose to make the language more modern.