WOMEN, THEY HAVE MINDS: The Genius of Intertextuality Between Alcott’s ‘Little Women’ and Gerwig’s Film Adaptation Xander Dave Galagar Ceballos College

Adaptations are bodies of work separated from its actual source that have undergone various steps of reconstruction to complement the new mediums that they would get involved with. They ought to capture the essence of their counterparts—commonly, these could refer to literary works—as they go through processes of revisitation which will provide the creator a perspective or a guide to attain the beauty of the work it is adapting. The adaptation is constituted of both interdependency to its origins and dependency on its own form as they are obliged to present a different style of storytelling yet still loyal to the senses of the text it is borrowing from. There have been numerous times wherein novels, memoirs, autobiographies, and even comics were translated into distinct forms of art, especially the art of filmmaking—being the most obvious choice of medium where these literary works would obtain adaptations. The intertextuality between these two art forms generate debates and dialogues from the audience and readers, ultimately pointing out the very purpose of the text—to create dimensions of dialogue among people.

Little Women, a coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott, deals with four sisters living in New England during the...