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    something comes between them and in the end they reunite. Add a few Shakespear-ish names‚ a few Shakespear quotes‚ and you get "10 Things I Hate About You". Now I’m not saying "10 Things" is a bad movie‚ but its a much weaker‚ tamer version of "Taming of The Shrew". They share only the initial set-up and can hardly be called the same story. In the begining of "10 Things.." the father‚ Walter‚ will not allow his youngest daughter‚ Bianca‚ to date until his oldest daughter Katarina‚ Kat for short‚ dates

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    Gender Roles? The man of the house. Now women are now becoming the man of the house. Gender in society are beginning to become a myth in the United states of america. Woman were sole caretakers of children. But due to education and the rights of woman gender roles are being switched. Men are to becoming the caretakers of their children. One of the roles of women were to take care of children and the house. They were supposed to listen to her husband and obey him no matter what. But however gender

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    The Taming of the Shrew and Ten Things I hate about You In the Shakespeare`s summarized version of play The Taming of the Shrew we travel approximately four hundred years back in time during the growing period of Renaissance and the reign of the Queen of England‚ Elizabeth I‚ where Shakespeare shows us the dominance of men in relation to women‚ with setting in Padua (current Italy) while the movie Ten Things I hate about You‚ successfully updated version of The Taming of The Shrew adapted to contemporary

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    How have aspects of gender been represented through music? Literature and visual art are almost always concerned with the organisation of gender and the construction of gender. Since listeners know how to explain how it creates its effects‚ music gives the illusion of operating independently of culture mediation. Music based on gender and how that is seen or heard is able to contribute heavily (if surreptitiously) to the shaping of individual identities: along with other influential media such

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    In the 1500’s William Shakespeare wrote a play called “Taming of the Shrew”. This play was based on the Elizabethan ideals and judgments of marriage‚ love‚ money and social status of the time. However‚ since then the stereotypes of these ideals have been changed and modernised. In 1999‚ Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith wrote the Movie “10 Things I Hate About You” (a modern adaption of the 16th century play originally written by Shakespeare). Even though “10 Things I Hate About You” is a more

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    How Is Gender represented In “A Surgeon’s Care” A Mills and Boon Novel? Gender socialization is the process of learning the social expectations and attitudes associated with gender. Socialisation itself‚ marked the beginning of sexism – the discrimination against others based on their gender. Many say‚ that this bias relates back to the Bible‚ as it’s said that man (Adam) was created first‚ and woman (Eve) was created second from one of Adams’ ribs. This strongly implies that male is the more dominant

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    IntroductionThe Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeares most popular plays. Its wit and comedy revolves around Kate Minola‚ a strong-willed woman who is seen as a shrew due to her unwillingness to conform to the unwritten rules of lady-hood and Pertruchio who is convinced he was born to tame [Kate]. The most obvious and major question would then be‚ was Katherine tamed by the end of the play? To be tamed‚ one would have to be forcibly changed into submissive obedience. A tamed being would obey

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    The story of The Taming of the Shrew is one that raises important issues both in the Shakespearean text and in the modern appropriation 10 Things I Hate About You. How does each composer’s use of this story reflect the time in which each was composed" The Taming of the Shrew was written in the Elizabethan Era in England at a time when men were considered to be superior to women. The patriarchal society of this time is reflected to a large extent in the text and various implications of traditional

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    How far do you agree with the opinion that courtship and marriage are undermined and ridiculed in “The Taming of the Shrew”? Shakespeare’s drama “The Taming of the Shrew” is set in the Elizabethan era‚ and marriage and courtship was very different than how it is in the present. Back then it was the parents who picked suitors for their daughters. This choice would be final for the daughters but often women rebelled against the decision as they wanted to choose their own suitors. “Romeo and Juliet”

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    10 Things I Hate About You/Taming of the Shrew Comparison Both 10 Things I Hate About You and the play Taming of the Shrew have a lot in common. One of those things is the shared premise. What is premised from the beginning is that there is this woman that nobody really likes Katherine (the “Shrew”) in the movie or Katarina in the play. Then her father makes a rule that Kat must get a husband/date before Bianca‚ the younger and fairer of the two‚ can have a husband/date. So the guy that

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