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    “10 Things I Hate About You” as well as “The Taming of the Shrew” are very similar to each other and that the “10 Things I hate about you” is based off “The Taming of the Shrew”. One similarity that I can point out right away is that at the end everything was a happy ending and everyone got there “loved one” The one difference about these two plays that are pretty obvious is that both of the play were made at different times like in the movie “10 things I hate about you” the characters are dating

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    comfortable as household Kates.” -Petruchio All that Taming Of The Shrew screams to its viewers‚ is the misogyny of Elizabethan times and the bitter resentment the church had for women.“It’s the story of a ‘shrewish’ woman who is roughly subjected nd forced by her husband‚ It cannot fail to be controversial‚ and often disturbing. The Taming of the Shrew has been considered a view of the trials of marriage‚ a love story or ‘chick flick’ (Females Movie)‚ a historical act on the treatment of women and a

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    The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy written in the early 1590’s by William Shakespeare. This play within a play starts when a powerful lord plays a prank on a poor‚ drunken man named Christopher Sly. The lord convinces the poor man that he is actually a lord himself and that the troop of actors that have arrived are there to perform a play for him. This play that the troop of actors performs is the story of Petruchio‚ who wants to marry for money‚ and Katherina‚ the shrew. The two actually marry

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    The Taming of the Shrew is a romantic comedy with a plot that develops intensely‚ however comedic devices are the mainstay for this‚ because without them‚ it would’ve taken away from the characteristics and meaning behind the plot of the story. The Taming of the Shrew has a light and humorous tone full of clever language and wit that brings out the true personality of the characters. Shakespeare’s ability to intertwine this tone into his writing extracts a playful quality and ultimately brings

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    Shakespeare Response In The Taming of the Shrew scene‚ Petruchio is sexualized by not wearing a shirt through most of the scene and making many sexual innuendos towards Kate. Shakespeare added innuendos into a lot of his writing but I did not expect to see so much blatant sexuality as in The Taming of the Shrew. This scene was also different because Petruchio performed many wrestling moves such as body slamming Kate and trying to pin her to the ground‚ which would be seen in WWE Wrestle type acting

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    The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a controversial play that arouses a debate over if Katherine being truly tamed or not. A man named Petruchio marries Katherine‚ who is dubbed a shrew because she gets easily rankled by people. When Petruchio first meets. It was crucial for her to be tamed because she isn’t what a wife actually is at that specific time period. He tames her to enhance her personality. Katherine tells what a true wife is at her sister’s wedding banquet. His job becomes

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    The comedic play entitled “The Taming of the Shrew” written by William Shakespeare‚ is an antifeminist story of how a man named Petruchio tames his wife Katherine Minola into submission. There are many aspects of this play that appear to be sexist toward women; parts pertaining to the organization of marriage‚ the taming of a woman‚ and the social disapproval of a woman refuting something with a man. Though sexist‚ when Shakespeare wrote the play‚ the aspects of the play that are considered unacceptable

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    William Shakespeare’s original work of “The Taming of the Shrew‚” Fletcher who responded to Shakespeare’s work which depicted women by making them powerless and victims to deception and manipulation caused by men. John fetcher wrote a response to Shakespeare work switching the roles of power‚ Fletcher decided to give woman a voice in his play. Fletcher who made women manipulate the system to break boundaries which had been set in The Taming of the Shrew. This paper will examine how women manipulated

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    12.2.12 Taming of the Shrew Paper Gender roles have normally been dominated by men‚ with women unwillingly submitting to them. In William Shakespeare’s‚ The Taming of the Shrew‚ this idea is presented with the characters Kate and Petruchio. Kate brings about a new attitude of women becoming dominant that is not accepted by Petruchio or the rest of society. Without any support to help her‚ Kate is unable to keep her own character and conforms to be an obedient wife. In the play Taming of the Shrew

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    Spring break 2010 English Nickalson Thomas Ms.Thomas Choice 2 In play by William Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew”‚ the shrew Katherine had a very bad attitude on life and just about everything else. Bianca wanted to get married. She had all of the men’s hearts‚ Katherine had none. If Katherine got married then Bianca could get married. She really was a shrew who needed to be tamed. No one wanted to marry Katherine until Petruchio arrives in Padua to find

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