Baptista Minola is a Bad Father The Taming of the Shrew Many people may have their own thoughts on what makes a good parent‚ what really determines whether or not you are a good mother or father? Well a good parent would treat all their children equally; care about their children’s thoughts and feelings‚ and finally a good parent would be able to solve conflicts properly. In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Baptista Minola‚ the father of the two daughters Kate and Bianca
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Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew from the Elizabethan England period and Gil Junger’s teenage film Ten Things I Hate About You‚ released in 1999‚ share many similar elements but at the same time seem completely different from each other. Although both stories work with similar plots‚ many aspects of the Ten Things I Hate About You‚ which is an appropriation of The Taming of the Shrew‚ have been altered to suit the teenage audience of the late 1990’s. Both stories deal with relationships with
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Different Interpretations of Taming of the Shrew - Act 2‚ Scene 1 (The wooing Scene) Since there are so many different adaptations of Taming of the Shrew‚ there are quite a lot of differences when you see it‚ then when you read it. Especially when you try to imagine the Wooing Scene‚ in Act 2 Scene 1. Here are a few main differences I noticed in two of the different adaptations I watched: * Gaudete Academy 2010 Production (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaebQOnnHMU) * Petruchio
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In Shakespeare’s comedies The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummers Night Dream‚ both fathers can be overlooked due to their few occurrences‚ but are pivotal to the storyline. In the fathers’ pursuits to find favorable suitors for their daughters‚ their inattentiveness leads to the daughters choosing the men they want to marry. Bianca’s father‚ Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew is consumed with finding a suitor for his eldest daughter Katherine before Bianca‚ distracting him from Bianca’s communication
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In comparison‚ Taming of the Shrew play and 10 Things I hate about You film both share similarities and differences. The relationship between Kat and Pat is a lot different than Kate and Petruchio between both titles. The similarities between how they tame Kate and the differences between the woman’s roles. Patrick and Petruchio are the ones to ‘tame the shrew’. Patrick’s is seen as Kat’s peer‚ while Petruchio is more of Katherine’s master. Petruchio had starved and wouldn’t let Katherine sleep
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impressions can drastically change how someone is perceived‚ one could find the love of their life‚ or someone they hate. Readers can find many different examples of relationships in William Shakespeare’s plays. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet‚ he establishes an affectionate tone throughout their meeting scene‚ where their first impressions are put in place; on the other hand‚ Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew‚ he constructs an argumentative tone through their vile diction and character
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How does Shakespeare present marriage in the Taming of the Shrew? In The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare is using Kate and Petruchio’s relationship to present marriage as something women should not aspire to‚ this is different to the conventions of other comedies‚ for example; in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing the two characters dislike each other but become better people through love and marriage. Apart from this ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ does seem to have many of the conventions that
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compare them‚ we have to think about the different time background and different society situations of each. In the original Shakespearean comedy‚ the main setting place is 1590s Padua‚ a city in Italy. In the movie‚ it is late 1990s American at a high school named “Padua High School.” In consideration of ages and identification‚ there are some dissimilar details between the two versions. For example‚ the main topic from the beginning to the end in Shakespeare’s play is about marriage‚ while the main topic
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Katherine is the main character in the movie Taming of the Shrew‚ she starts out as the shrew suggested by the title‚ but is not at the end of the movie. What causes her change is a psychological happening more than a physical happening. At the beginning of the story she is the very definition of a shrew‚ a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant‚ (from dictionary.com). This was the case because she was jealous of her sister‚ who was more beautiful and sought after by suitors than she‚ this
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the most important aspects in "Much Ado About Nothing" is the story of love. It is often the basis for what transpires throughout the play and can most easily be seen through the relationships between Hero and Claudio‚ and Benedick and Beatrice. During the play the reader learns a lot about these couples as well as how they possess some of the same relationship traits whilst still seeing the obvious disparities between them. Benedick and Beatrice represent a "love/hate" relationship. They share
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