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    Baptista Minola is a Bad Father The Taming of the Shrew Many people may have their own thoughts on what makes a good parent‚ what really determines whether or not you are a good mother or father? Well a good parent would treat all their children equally; care about their children’s thoughts and feelings‚ and finally a good parent would be able to solve conflicts properly. In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Baptista Minola‚ the father of the two daughters Kate and Bianca

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    Beatrice and Benedick represent the Ideal couple In the play Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare in 1599 shows the concept of love and its different sides (tragedy‚ hope...). The two main couples that are formed throughout the play are Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick‚ each couple is unique as the four characters are very different and have very different personalities from one another. Beatrice and Benedick represent the ideal couple because they both take their time

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    “Ten things I hate about you is a good appropriation of Shakespeare’s play ‘taming of the shrew’.” ‘Ten things I hate about you’ (ten things) is a movie‚ which was released in 1999. It is meant to be an appropriation of shakspeares play ‘taming of the shrew’. But my question is‚ has it done so successfully? Even though he directors of ’10 things’ have changed a significant amount of the play‚ the main story line has been preserved‚. there are obvious similarities between the two texts. For

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    In comparison‚ Taming of the Shrew play and 10 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

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    In Shakespeare’s comedies The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummers Night Dream‚ both fathers can be overlooked due to their few occurrences‚ but are pivotal to the storyline. In the fathers’ pursuits to find favorable suitors for their daughters‚ their inattentiveness leads to the daughters choosing the men they want to marry. Bianca’s father‚ Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew is consumed with finding a suitor for his eldest daughter Katherine before Bianca‚ distracting him from Bianca’s communication

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    How does Shakespeare present marriage in the Taming of the Shrew? In The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare is using Kate and Petruchio’s relationship to present marriage as something women should not aspire to‚ this is different to the conventions of other comedies‚ for example; in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing the two characters dislike each other but become better people through love and marriage. Apart from this ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ does seem to have many of the conventions that

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    relationships in William Shakespeare’s plays. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet‚ he establishes an affectionate tone throughout their meeting scene‚ where their first impressions are put in place; on the other hand‚ Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew‚ he constructs an argumentative tone through their vile diction and character motivation‚ in their meetion scene‚ where Katherine and Petruchio’s first impressions go very different than Romeo and Juliet’s. Romeo and Juliet’s tone‚ affection

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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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    compare them‚ we have to think about the different time background and different society situations of each. In the original Shakespearean comedy‚ the main setting place is 1590s Padua‚ a city in Italy. In the movie‚ it is late 1990s American at a high school named “Padua High School.” In consideration of ages and identification‚ there are some dissimilar details between the two versions. For example‚ the main topic from the beginning to the end in Shakespeare’s play is about marriage‚ while the main topic

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    The Taming of the Shrew is a dramatic comedy written by Shakespeare that was written in 1593 that takes place near Verona‚ Italy. The play has multiple elements of dramatic irony and comedic language. The play shows the process of marriage back then and the problems that most brides‚ and grooms faced. Often in those days‚ the father of the bride would arrange the marriage of their daughter‚ these arrangements were virtually final regardless of the daughter’s opinion. In the play; Kate‚ a quick-tempered

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