Burger King for a promotional product in Singapore in 2009‚ to examine how women are represented as a social group. It is a response to the prescribed question‚ ‘How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?’ under ‘Power and Privilege‚ it corresponds part 1 (Language in Cultural Context) of the course. The piece highlights the purpose of an advertisement‚ and how this particular advertisement draws on gender and culture stereotypes in a frivolous manner. The prominent message
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Gender Roles in Literature In a society‚ there are set of accepted norms that expected to be met by everyone that is included within that society. As time passes‚ society begins to evolve and the standards change. What was once a normal standard of living in the early 1920’s may be seen as old fashioned and is no longer acceptable in the late 1980’s. These standards are the base of how one should live and are enforced through influences such as peers‚ media‚ and literature. Seeing women and male
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hundred years. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a grand narrative - its themes transcend time‚ place‚ culture and context. Owing to the plays universal themes and timeless elements‚ the test has been skillfully and cleverly appropriated to be valued in various periods of time. The film 10 things I hate about youm composed in 1999 by writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith‚ Kiss Me Kate directed by Georfe Sydney and Shakespeare Retold - The taming of the Shrew directed by Davud
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Is 10 Things I Hate About You simply The Taming of the Shrew relocated to high school? Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You is undoubtedly more complicated than a relocation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew into high school. The transformation of Shakespearean comedy into the ‘teen’ movie genre and the integration of Elizabethan values enable the film to be a successful relocation of the play‚ yet the incorporation of modern gender conventions discerns it as something more than a relocation
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between men and women. Gender roles are based on norms‚ or standards‚ created by society. In the United States‚ masculine roles are usually associated with strength‚ aggression‚ and dominance‚ while feminine roles are usually associated with passivity‚ nurturing‚ and subordination. Women in society have the capacity and professionalism to execute with the same level of excellence as men. Socialization is the process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it and how people adapt ideas about
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play‚ Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and the modern movie 10 Things I hate about you are correspondent to each other in many ways. They have very similar characters names and their behaviors‚ similar plots‚ and themes. The characters are very similar to each other because in Taming of the Shrew‚ the main character’s name is Katarina and in 10 Things I hate about you the main character’s name is Katherina‚ or Kat for short. Katarina and Katherine are both well known as the “shrew” of
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LITERATURE THE CONTEMPORARY SHREW: AN ANALYSIS OF TWO MODERNISED FILM APPROPRIATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE ’S THE TAMING OF THE SHREW BA thesis LIIS KAASIK SUPERVISOR: LECT. RAILI PÕLDSAAR TARTU 2008 ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the contemporary context and genre conventions have affected the representation of different characters and the plot in two modernized film versions of The Taming of the Shrew‚ ShakespeaRe-Told Taming of the Shrew (2005)‚ directed by David Richards
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About You accurately summarises the attitudes of both her own character and her doppelganger‚ Katherina‚ in The Taming of the Shrew. These texts show us that the differing contexts and societal values of the texts influence directly the development and growth within the characters. The parallels and differences between Kate’s transformations in William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You are drawn through the use of characterisation and the strong tones
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of counter-hegemony due to the prevalent theme of feminism. The protagonist plays an independent‚ male-like role whom seemingly promotes feminist behaviour. Firstly‚ it is important to define the key components of the question‚ which in this case are the concepts of hegemony and counter-hegemony. Secondly‚ one must identify the issues of ideology and hegemony‚ before finally explaining how Buffy The Vampire Slayer has addressed these particular concerns. The series challenges orthodox anti-feminist
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Taming of the Shrew and 10 things I hate about you Taming of the Shrew is a famous play written by William Shakespeare. In the modern day version‚ 10 things I hate about you‚ Gil Junger explores the relationship between men and women. Junger has taken Shakespeare’s ideas of favouritism‚ how looks can be deceptive and a person’s basis for a relationship and has put them into an up to date teenage friendly format. The relationship between fathers and daughters is often quite difficult. In Taming
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