Digital adaptation has transformed classic literary texts, reshaping their themes, aesthetics, and cultural significance. This paper examines how Pride and Prejudice (1813) and its digital adaptation, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), reimagine key themes such as gender, class, and social mobility through technological mediation. While Austen’s original novel critiques 19th-century marriage norms and class structures within the refined spaces of drawing rooms and country estates, the adaptation merges romance with action-horror, turning the marriage market into a battlefield. This transformation not only subverts traditional gender roles but also reinterprets social hierarchies in a post-apocalyptic setting, where survival is as critical as social status. Elizabeth Bennet, once constrained by the expectations of her time, becomes an empowered warrior, demonstrating physical strength alongside her intellectual independence. Mr. Darcy, too, is reimagined as a brooding fighter, reinforcing yet complicating his aristocratic privilege. Through this genre hybridity, the adaptation challenges the boundaries between high and popular culture, recontextualizing Austen’s social critique for a contemporary audience. By analyzing how digital media affect narrative structure, thematic development, and audience reception, this study explores how technology reshapes the cultural legacy of Austen’s novel. Ultimately, this paper argues that digital adaptation extends the critical discourse of Pride and Prejudice, not only preserving but also reinterpreting its core themes, highlighting the fluidity of literary tradition in the digital age.

This paper delves into the harsh realities of European imperialism in Africa, with a particular focus on the atrocities committed in the Congo. Through the perspective of Marlow, the narrator who journeys to Africa to command a steamboat for a Belgian company, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness offers insight into the destructive consequences of colonialism. The novel not only reflects the historical events of the 19th century but also critically examines the concept of “civilization” as a colonial construct used to justify exploitation. The study explores how the notion of civilization was manipulated to oppress African populations, serving as a myth to veil the brutal nature of imperial conquest. It also highlights the multifaceted destruction brought by colonialism, ranging from the violent subjugation of native peoples to the environmental degradation caused by the relentless extraction of natural resources. Furthermore, the character of Kurtz symbolizes the psychological and moral collapse of the colonizer, illustrating how the imperial mission corrodes the very individuals who pursue it. Ultimately, the novel portrays civilization not as a force for progress but as a deceptive ideology masking greed, domination, and human suffering.

Carol Churchill, a British considerable dramatist in the late twentieth century, first came to prominence as a major playwright in the 1980s. The primary theme that Churchill addresses in her novel is that of gender politics, which are imposed on individuals by a patriarchal society. Churchill demonstrates how women throughout the ages cannot escape from patriarchal systems and why some of them accept dominant patriarchal ideologies and exposes questions about women’s roles in Top Girls. By describing different types of female characters and how they succeed as women, Churchill criticizes the established social and economic norms and how they affect women. We can see that in the Nijo and Griselda characters and how such social standards affect their identities. Despite being from different eras and cultures, Nijo (a 13th-14th century Japanese courtesan) and Griselda an obedient wife in Western literature in Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls share a number of important similarities and endurance through their life experiences and roles in the play.From the moment of his birth, Nijo is selected for the role of concubine to the Emperor, a position that entails the fulfillment of sexual duties. Griselda is a character based on the figure of the obedient wife in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales. The present article explores the question of whether obedience is valued in society or whether fighting against it brings success to women.