10 Things I Hate About You Character Analysis

Katherine is a perfect character that displays both chacteristics of this play being an anti-romantic. Katherine is a very troubled person in this play, she is as they call the “shrew”. Calling her the shrew just shows the very prominent sexist ideals in this play I think making it very unromantic, men do not like her because she speaks her mind and it very independent unlike her calm and beautiful sister Bianca. In the time that this play was popular it was a normal thing to find women like Katherine undesirable, although this is true it is still something that very common in this day and age. In the scheme of things women are still told to shut their mouths and hold back their oppinions so they do not come off as annoying or unattractive. A perfect example of this would be the movie adaptation of this play, 10 Things I Hate About You. In this movie you have the same characters like Katherine and Bianca except in a high school setting. Katherine is still seen as a shrew for not holding back her tongue and she is penilized for it.

Multiple times throughout this play, language is used to show that women are inferior to men. Bianca and Kate are two sisters who are the main focus of the suitors’ interests in the play. Petruccio and Lurencio finally win Kate and Bianca
For McAuliffe, too, it is the bartering of daughters that looks really misogynistic. In accordance with custom of the day, Katherine's father, Baptista, promises his two daughters to the men who have the most to offer financially. And, as a portrait of womanhood, spirited Katherine is preferable to her flirty, wily sister Bianca. "Bianca gives women a very bad name," says Michelle Gomez, who played Katherine for the RSC in 2008. "She is the manipulative, backstabbing, awful version of what women are, fluttering her eyelids to get what she