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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Since the beginning of time men have played the dominant role in nearly every culture around the world. If the men were not dominant‚ then the women and men in the culture were equal. Never has a culture been found where women have dominated. In "Society and Sex Roles" by Ernestine Friedl‚ Friedl supports the previous statement and suggests that "although the degree of masculine authority may vary from one group to the next‚ males always have more power" (261). Friedl discusses a variety of diverse
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The basic plots of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You both involve multiple men wanting to be with a nice‚ beautiful girl named Bianca‚ but Bianca has a mean‚ older sister named Katherine that no one wants to be with. In both of the stories‚ the father of these two
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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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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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conventional roles and values but also intrigue the responder. To what extent have the composers of TWO prescribed texts and one of your own choosing achieved this? In order for a text to remain‚ relevant and intriguing to responders throughout many contexts‚ it must challenge conventional roles and values in a revealing and provocative manner. A role that is vital to human understanding is the concept of gender and the effect it has on identity. Through the challenging of these binary gender roles‚ Shekhar
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