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
The Taming of the Shrew is a 17th century look at gender roles and relationships. Two sisters, two totally different personalities, yet both wanting to be loved. Bianca is the baby and all she wants is a relationship, for the 17th century she is the biggest boy crazy teen. Katherine a strong-willed and out-spoken young woman, she knows what she wants and she knows that nothing will get in her way from getting it. Both women looking for love, only Bianca is a little more aware of that fact than Katherine
The Taming of the Shrew, a character that experiences an alternation during the course of the play is Kate, which whom is the shrew of the Shakespearean play. Kate’s characterization of a shrew is due to her not falling into the categorization of women during the medieval time period. Kate does not fit the criteria of a medieval woman; one may characterize her as an intelligent, yet aggressive woman. This has caused her to be an outcast by society. Those of the Renaissance society view Kate in this
Maisy The Taming of The Shrew was written in 1592 by William Shakespeare and exists today as a result of the timeless tale and also the depiction of the world in the Sixteenth Century. In recent years Gil Junger directed a film, Ten Things I Hate About You, which took the plot elements of The Taming, and appropriated them to suit a Twenty First Century audience. The two versions vary greatly, due to the values held by their respective composers, and the cultural and historical aspects which influenced
Disguise and deception are themes that are heavily intertwined in the play; the characters seemingly assume and discard their disguises without any major consequences for their actions. We are reminded by this that “The Taming of the Shrew” is a comedy of mistaken identity, a plot device that becomes more sophisticated as the play develops. These two devices become integral to the play’s meaning and understanding. The purpose of disguise in this play is to illustrate the extent at which we are prepared
‘The Taming of the Shrew’ brings to our attention the limited amount of social roles to women available in Elizabethan times and the play depicts men’s masculinity as dependent on his ability to dominate and control his wife. Gender, is of course, a huge theme in the playwright, especially as it relates to power. Katherina’s speech accurately articulates many Elizabethan commonplaces about women and marriage. ‘Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, And dart not scornful glances from those
which are depicted as the body parts and vital organs. What Menenius is trying to express to the citizens, is that they are being taken care of, even though it sometimes may not seem like that. He is also trying to show them that they play a crucial role in Rome's society; if they, the plebians (the body parts) rebel against the Senate (the belly), then the whole body (Rome) is going to