An exploration of the use Shakespeare makes of misunderstanding and deception in the play Much Ado About Nothing Misunderstanding and deception in Much Ado About Nothing are key themes in the play. In Elizabethan times the word “Nothing” was pronounced “Noting” and so the title would have given the audience the initial clue that in this play the importance of noting‚ spying‚ appearance and eavesdropping will cause trouble throughout. It is important to define the difference between misunderstanding
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shunned from society for going against her prescribed social role. Her only option is to change; she must submit completely to men‚ accept her inferior role‚ and relinquish her opinion if it contradicts her husband’s. William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew illustrates the consequences brought on women who went against their social roles and suggests that women must be submissive in order to obtain respect among men. 16-century women were prescribed stringent social roles. Women were expected
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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 10 Things I Hate About You are drawn through the use of characterisation
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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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How does Shakespeare use deception to structure the plot in ‘Much Ado’? Pretty much all of the key events or turning points in Much Ado about Nothing happen because characters deceive each other. Shakespeare uses deception as a way of structuring the plot because it often results in comedic situations and‚ after all‚ Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy. From the very beginning Shakespeare introduces the idea of using deception as a way of getting what you want. Don Pedro’s plan of wooing Hero
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“We dare not oppose the opinion of the Countess of Champagne who rules that love can exert no power between husband and wife” (Kelly-Gadol 178-9). This allowed women more freedom over their bodies and freedom in love because it had nothing to do with marriage. Castiglione established in The Courtier that there is a fateful bond between love and marriage. One index of a heightened patriarchal outlook among the Renaissance nobility is that love in the usual emotional and sexual sense must lead to marriage
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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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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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these in many different poetic styles and genres‚ for example in his sonnets. However he is also known for expressing his feelings towards love in over 30 of his plays through the genres of romantic comedy and tragedy. In one of his plays‚ “Much Ado About Nothing”‚ Shakespeare uses many different types of love; through a family‚ a well connected town‚ soldiers returning from war and lovers. Taking one aspect of this‚ the lovers‚ I pick out one male role in particular‚ Benedick. Who appears seamlessly
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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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