little more aware of that fact than Katherine. 10 Things I hate about you is a modern day twist of Shakespeare’s play Taming of the Shrew. Still a story about two sisters wanting love and one being a little more aware than the other. Bianca and Katerina Stratford live with their overprotective father that has a strict set of rules about dating. The rule is that there is no dating until the girls graduate, and Katerina has no plans on dating
Many of the plays written by William Shakespeare have been adapted to films with much success. The comedies "The Taming of the Shrew" and “10 Things I Hate About You’ are good examples of this. Gender stereotypes have been around for hundreds of years. What it means to be masculine and what it means to be feminine has evolved and changed rapidly in the past several decades. In the beginning people believed that all males were the tough and strong and all females were weak, through further research
““My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break” (IV.iii.84-85). Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and the modern movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, have many similarities and differences. One difference was in Shakespeare’s version, Tranio did not have a love interest, but in the modern movie, Michael, who portrayed Tranio, had a love interest. A second difference was that Vincentio, who had a role in the marriage of Lucentio and Bianca, was not seen
Taming of the shrew and 10 things i hate about you have numerous things in common, but they also have various things that contrast each other. Taming of the shrew and 10 things i hate about you have character, relationships, and the plot. In both movies, both Kat and Katherine are abusive. In 10 things, Kat is verbally abusive and cruel towards others, but she uses her tone of voice to get her way. While Katherine is more physically abusive rather than verbal, but she punches/hits people when she
Who Are You Calling a Shrew? It may not be hard to be shrew, but taming, that is a whole different story. Taming of the Shrew is a play written by William Shakespeare. It takes place in Padua, Italy. The story behind all of it is quite comical, a lord found a drunk man lying down. He decided to play a trick on him and make him think that he was asleep for 10 years. The only way to make him better was to watch this play. Katherina is one of the key characters in Taming of the Shrew. She is the eldest
stresses masculine dominance, 10 things I hate about you focuses more on the female's ability to have control over the male. In The Taming of The Shrew, Katherine changes to suit the preference of Petruchio. In the movie, the character kat changes her negative attitude but at the same time, Patrick Verona meets her halfway in changing for her as well. While the relationship in The Taming of the Shrew is seemingly one sided, the relationship in 10 things I hate about you is genuine and the
Essay question - How does the modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ speak to younger audiences? The modern adaptation ’10 Things I hate about you” directed by Gil Junger in 1999 is more effective when speaking to a younger audience than the original version, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century. Younger audiences relate to Shakespeare’s message more effectively due to the adaption of language, setting and characterisation. Language is
I had a strange dream the night before we met again in September, a dream about you. But you were no longer a campus or a schoolhouse or a classroom. No, you were a person. And you were there, outside my room, waving at me as always with that cute, disarming smile on your face, even as you shivered in the brisk autumn air of the New England evening. I invited you inside. You said you missed me, and I said the same. We spent that night catching up, first talking about you and what you had been up
Hubert Amilcar February 26, 2014 ENC 1102 MWF (8:00) Argumentative Synthesis Essay Hate-Crime Laws: Human Rights or A Hint Of Compassion A hate-crime is defined as “a crime in which the criminal is motivated by bias against the particular group to which his or her victim belongs (Update: Hate-Crime Laws).” Hate-crime laws were implemented during the year 1969, after numerous attacks on certain groups of citizens. Hate-crimes are motivated by a bigoted bias towards one of eight characteristics of
this, someone has to teach it to you. Likewise, although there are 18 grades in the school system (Preschool, Grades 1-12, and the five degrees of college), once you pass that point there's more to the world than meets the eye. You might learn how to do a certain job, or how to survive