of? All of these are examples of gender roles‚ and it’s all around us‚ we just don’t notice it. I decided my ISU should be on the broad topic of gender roles‚ and gender inequality for a couple of reasons. Mainly I feel that nowadays‚ gender inequality‚ along with gender roles‚ are almost everywhere‚ but no one seems to care‚ or feels the desire Gender inequality throughout our modern society promotes the segregation of genders. For example‚ specific genders are told they
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‘A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money’( W.C Fields). The main male characters in “The Taming of The Shrew” and “Ten Things I Hate About You”‚ Petruchio and Patrick‚ have three things in common‚ the lust for money‚ the lust for power‚ and the lust for women. In the 1967 version of the play‚ originally written by Shakespeare‚ Petruchio is portrayed as brute only thinking about money and himself. In the 1999 version Patrick is portrayed as a charming‚ smooth talker that doesn’t care about
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Gender roles in Shakespeare’s time played a crucial role in all of his plays‚ sonnets‚ and writings in general. Even though during his time‚ the views on gender roles were much different than today‚ Shakespeare still found a way to make his views of the various roles of men and women very clear. Through the art of language and poetry‚ Shakespeare’s views of men and women in society were well known and portrayed to his audiences‚ whether it was in 1597 or 2016. When Shakespeare began writing‚ he
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according to med lexicon’s medical dictionary‚ gender is "the category to which an individual is assigned by self or others‚ on the basis of sex." In other words‚ sex equal to male and female‚ and it also refers to a natural or living feature. Parallel to that‚ gender equal to manly and feminine‚ it refers to cultural or learned the statistical significance of sex. In addition‚ when a baby is born‚ that baby can be given a gender base on its biology sex. Gender roles refer to society’s notion
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In the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”‚ there are a lot of similarities to “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare. For example‚ most of the similarities have to do with power relationships‚ courtship and dating‚ and sisters. The main characters in both the writing and movie have the same personalities. Bianca is played as the perfect innocent teenager and Kate is portrayed as a spiteful‚ bad tempered person. Also‚ their father is still very strict. As one would think‚ the themes between
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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 names‚ such as Katherine‚ Bianca‚ and Petruccio who is Patrick. These characters are not only similar in name alone‚ but they fall into their expected roles like pieces of a puzzle. The plots deal with the same major issues. The whole premise of the desirable Bianca not being able to have
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Katherine the Shrew Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew is comedy about Kathrine‚ an outspoken rebellious shrew. In this story she is paired up with Petruchio‚ a man who only wanted her for her money and so Bianca could 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
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“Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make‚ both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing‚ you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself (Robert Bennet)” This quote captures the very essence of Existential Therapy. This theoretical orientation deviates from all the other theoretical orientation‚ due to it overarching theme which focuses on a “way of thinking” than methods and strategies
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It is not at all certain that Kate is tamed by her husband; rather through the situations he involves her in‚ she develops‚ moving from a selfish girl lashing out in defence against her father’s favouritism‚ to a more mature woman who finally sees adult life is made of compromises. Many critics see Act IV‚ Scene 5 as marking the point of Kate’s defeat. In reality‚ she is not defeated at all. The game which she has played expertly up until the time of her marriage (getting her way through ranting
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The theme of ‘problematic love‚’ which can be defined as love that faces obstacles or does not conform to conventions expected by the society in which it is set is a major theme explored in all three texts: Despite differences in genre‚ form and historical context‚ for example the impact of marriage on a relationship and the challenges to that institution. The idea is‚ for example‚ portrayed in Othello through the relationship of the ‘noble Moor’ and ‘fair’ Desdemona‚ exacerbated by the personified
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