In the contemporary era, Digital narratives are the best and most powerful means of acquiring knowledge and amusement. Combining text, images, audio, and video enhances storytelling, making it more immersive and engaging. Earlier the only method of knowing a story was through reading but now digital humanities have brought a transformation in education. It engages the audience through multiple senses. It brings the text closer to reality, provoking the audience to imagine and give a lively experience as a spectator. Though we are not present physically, the special effects make us feel that we are witnesses to what is happening.
The advantages of digital narrative are it helps the students
develop technical skills and boost their creative thinking. It also enhances
their ability to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate information. It fosters
independent thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making, allowing learners
to question assumptions and consider multiple perspectives. It also fosters the
feeling of Empathy an ability to understand and share the feelings of others
that promotes collaboration, respect for diverse viewpoints, and the capacity
to address social and emotional issues constructively. It makes them Resilient.
This paper explores the use of digital narratives in literature as
a medium to educate, amuse, and bridge fiction with reality through innovative
storytelling. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,
a transmedia adaptation of Pride and
Prejudice, this study highlights the potential of digital tools in
modernizing classic texts and fostering audience interaction. The analysis also
focuses on how digital storytelling can become a stepping stone for creativity
and self-expression.
Digital narratives in literature as an immersive tool to educate,
amuse, develop creativity, and understand virtues. The mythologies like
Ramayana, and Mahabharata, the romantic texts like Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice” and Rudyard
Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” have made a place apart in the heart of the
audience leaving them speculating. My paper will also focus on how Digital
online storytelling has become a stepping stone to being creative and vocal.
Pride
and Prejudice written by Jane Austen is adapted into The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a transmedia project using YouTube
videos, blogs, and social media to modernize the story creating a highly
interactive and engaging narrative.
Author
(s) Details
Sumitra Jaiswal
Department of English and Foreign Languages, R.B.V.R.R. Women’s College,
India.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-48859-10-5/CH20
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