version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The main characters and the underlying plot are all extremely similar. There is a never ending list of creations that were adapted from Shakespeare’s plays. 10 Things I Hate About You is based on The Taming of the Shrew. The Lion King on Hamlet. And Pocahontas on The Tempest. If Shakespeare is that unbearable and that old‚ why are so many directors and novelists twisting his work to shape their own? Shakespeare’s work is definitely not outdated and irrelevant
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Katherine is a perfect character that displays both chacteristics of this play being an anti-romantic. Katherine is a very troubled person in this play‚ she is as they call the “shrew”. Calling her the shrew just shows the very prominent sexist ideals in this play I think making it very unromantic‚ men do not like her because she speaks her mind and it very independent unlike her calm and beautiful sister Bianca. In the time that this play was popular it was a normal thing to find women like Katherine
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The first time I heard the phrase break the ice was in elementary school. On the first day of school‚ my math teacher asked the class to do an activity to break the ice. I looked at her disbelief‚ “What? Why are we breaking ice in a math class?” I took what was supposed to be a figurative expression literally. My math teacher explained that breaking ice was just a figure of speech to make the class feel more comfortable with everyone. Although she never explained why it means like that today‚ or
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Title: Lost Names Author: Richard E. Kim Protagonist: Korean Boy Antagonist: The Japs Themes: Family‚ Sacrifice‚ Tradition‚ Perseverance Quotes: “As if forcing a man to say what they want him to say would change his soul” Title: Taming of the Shrew Author: William Shakespeare Protagonist: Katherine‚ Petruchio Antagonist: Shrewishness Themes: Marriage as an Economic Institution‚ Individual Happiness‚ Power and Language‚ Disguise Quotes: “There’s small choice in
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Appearance vs reality in Shakespeare’s plays According to definition in Oxford dictionary reality is a quality of being real; real existence; that which underlies appearance. And appearance is something that is showed or can be seen. The word appearance comes from the word appear. And one of the meanings of the word “appear” is “seem”. When we say: “it seems to me” we mean that we don’t know for sure. Shakespeare tries to reveal the reality‚ which underlies appearance. If appearance is something
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be confusing to be unaware of one’s true personality‚ and a major cause of stress. Sometimes personalities can be hidden through actions of others‚ too. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz‚ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare‚ and The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger‚ characters experience confusion about who they are.. Katherine’s‚ Holden’s‚ and Aristotle’s isolation highlights that self deception results in loss of
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Chase Hullinger Period 3 10 Things I Hate About You Movie Review The 1999 film‚ 10 Things I Hate About You‚ mirrors many of the characters‚ themes‚ and conflicts as in the Shakespeare play‚ The Taming of the Shrew. The characters in the film involve Kat as Kate‚ Patrick as Petruchio‚ Cameron as Lucentio‚ Bianca as Bianca‚ Michael as Tranio‚ and Joey as a suitor for Bianca. The characters share many of the same motives as their counterparts in the play. The reasons for their motives all revolve
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It is said that there are some books that should be only tasted‚ few that should be chewed till digested: some to be read with curiosity‚ and some need reading with diligent attention. So is the case with the book authors. English literature is filled with the variety of authors that designed the 20th century literature. Few famous names of book authors that shaped the twentieth century literature are: George Orwell who was a great essayist and novelist and his writings are famous for social and
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It’s very easy to see William Shakespeare as an amazing literary genius who had a perspective on life that‚ to simply put it‚ no one else has ever had. However Shakespeare was the product of the English Renaissance. The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement spanning from the later 15th century until the early 17th century‚ it is associated with the Italian Renaissance which started in the 14th century. Like most of northern Europe‚ England did not get the full effect of the Renaissance
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(November 11‚ 2008). She Walks in Beauty Rhyme‚ Form & Meter. Retrieved May 16‚ 2011‚ from http://www.shmoop.com/she-walks-in-beauty/rhyme-form-meter.html SparkNotes Editors. (2002). SparkNote on The Taming of the Shrew. Retrieved May 16‚ 2011‚ from http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/
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