“I don’t like to do what people expect.” This line from the character Kat in 10 Things I Hate 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
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cast of William Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” & Gil Junger’s “10 things I hate about you” After watching both the play “Taming of the Shrew” and the movie “10 things I hate about you” I notice several differences‚ but equally enjoyed them both despite the lack of direct parallelism. If I had to choose between the two I would definitely say I enjoyed “Taming of the Shrew” in its original form‚ but “10 things I hate about you” had a modern-day twist that made it more relatable to my generation
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The 16th century 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
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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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Patti Wren Public Speaking Persuasive Speech Nov. 1‚ 2003 BULLYING |I want to share with you a story about a 12 year old boy. His name is Skyler. Skyler was an unusual boy that had significant problems in | |school with both peers and teachers. I don’t mean minor problems‚ I mean severe problems. Everyday of his school life was filled with the | |tortures of bullying‚ by several students as well as by a teacher. From the moment he got to school until the moment the bus doors
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to show their excitement. Secondly‚ the costumes perfectly show the characters’ emotion and characteristic. For instance‚ after Noelle witnesses that Craig says love to Nia who is a girlfriend of Craig’s best friend‚ she changes a shirt which has “I hate boys” on it. It explains that Noelle feels pretty
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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‚ it wasn’t true love. In 10 Things I hate about
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marry one of her suitors. As time goes on Petruchio is able to tame his wife Katherine‚ at least somewhat. Taming of the Shrew has spun out many different versions of its story‚ mostly in movies. Both movie versions‚ Shakespeare Retold and 10 Things I Hate About You where based and modeled around the theme and story of Taming of the Shrew. Out of these two interpretations‚ Shakespeare Retold was the one that best represented the story through their use of emotion‚ accuracy‚ and setting. Retold had
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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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Shakespearean plays either cheaply replace ancient conventions with modern ones or blend both into an almost seamless package. I would not go as far to say that 10 Things I Hate About You is seamless‚ but in a clichéd “teen-movie style” you could not have asked for something better. Regardless‚ there are key similarities and differences that are intriguing. 10 Things I Hate About You has some fairly obvious similarities with Taming of the Shrew. Most notably‚ the main characters have similar or identical
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