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 Richard are just some examples of texts that were skillfully appropriated
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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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modern version of Shakespeare’s piece was created into a film called “10 Things I hate About You”. They are obviously both similar due to the fact that “10 Things I Hate About You” was a remake of the original‚ but they are not completely the same. The modern film version was changed to suit a different audience of the time period and contained more up-to-date features. The play “The Taming of the Shrew”‚ is basically about a “shrew” named Katherine Minola who is infamous for having a bad temper
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“Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is considered a masterpiece of American poetry. The short tale of a leisurely ride in a carriage with a man called Death offers insight and perspective into what life really is. Ultimately‚ Dickinson wishes to remind the reader that life is a cycle; and death can be seen as an end‚ or as a beginning. The cycle of life is exemplified in Dickinson’s use of the personification of Death‚ the imagery of things seen in the carriage ride‚ and use of
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“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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Majbritt Dietrich 24/2/13 composition starting with “Finally the smoke cleared and I could see” Finally the smoke cleared and I could see what I think I’ve been looking for‚ for five years… I saw a small‚ abandoned house‚ which was run down and you could see dead ivy along the tattered walls. It was a little haunting but I promised myself and my sister in law I would help find my two nieces that had made a giant mistake five years ago… He drove out here‚ into the middle
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Essay #1 9 July‚ 2013 My School Experience Throughout my life I have always struggled with school. You could say it’s because I have ADHD. That seems to be the favorite reason given by people who were trying to figure out why this “smart” kid was doing so miserably in school. I wasn’t convinced. For whatever reason though‚ I’ve always been a terrible student. Through high school‚ my plan was to join the military when I graduated; worry about college later. So my logic was to skate by just
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It was one of the most painful injuries that I have ever gone through. It was almost the end of the school year with just two weeks of school left. My high school coach had told us that we can play in soccer class the next day if we brought our cleats. My teammates from my club team told me they weren’t going to bring their cleats because they didn’t want to risk getting an injury before the tournament that weekend. They told me not to play‚ but I wanted to so I brought my cleats the next day. It
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The day I found out about my ethnicity was one of the worst days of my life‚ so far. It was only around 2 years ago and it started just like any other day‚ I was having a pretty good day. It seemed like nothing could possibly go wrong. However‚ little did I know‚ I was about to find out some information that will affect me for the rest of my life. First‚ I realize that the story will not make sense If I do not tell you a little about my childhood. When I was too young to remember anything‚ around
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