To put it simply, through Oldroyd (visual) and Birch (rhetorical) decisions and changes what do the authors wish to say and are they successful in doing so? Consider: what drives Katherine? Is she sympathetic? What power dynamics does the film criticize? How does the film reject typical representations of the male and female genders?
In doing so, I would like you to build off of the following sources:
• Primary Sources
• Required: Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1865) [at
least two close-reading moments from two respective chapters]
• Required: William Oldroyd (Director) and Alice Birch’s (screenwriter) Lady
Macbeth [at least two scenes from the film]
