in the time of Shakespeare. While The Taming of The Shrew 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
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
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
degrading to the female characters. A good example of this is Shakespeare’s play “The Taming the Shrew”. The misogynistic, male character, Petrucio, treats the female character, Katherine, as an object rather than a human being. The subordination of women is an ongoing theme in this play. It shows that the men treat the woman more or less like a commodity. Stanley Cavell, goes against the “The Taming of the Shrew” by portraying the male characters as more fatherly and loving to the unruly, female
‘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
fall for their neighbor. Tragedy is an element that was expressed in both the play and the movie. In the play Macbeth, a Scottish general kills the king in order to gain the throne, but descends into murderous tendencies in order to stay in control and keep his authority. In the 1990 film Men of respect, a man kills an enemy of the crime family he belongs to which causes him to earn his boss’s respect. He eventually kills the boss, but has the issue of not murdering anyone he perceives as a
William Shakespeare expertly produced female characters that strayed away from the one-dimensional tropes of the time. The Taming of the Shrew is no exception as it explores the inappropriate behavior of Katherine. However, Katherine isn't the only female character with distinguishable actions and hidden intentions; her sister Bianca is just as much as an indecent woman as she is. Bianca speaks often of herself throughout the play and changes her speech towards the end to be witty and crude. Additionally