Taming of the Shrew Versus 10 Things I Hate About You Have you ever considered how many of your favorite modern romances are actually based on plays written over 500 years ago by a famous playwright, William Shakespeare? For example, millions of young adults have watched and loved the movie, “10 Things I Hate About You”, without realizing it was actually based on a famous play by Shakespeare. After viewing the movie, many similarities to Shakespeare’s play, “Taming of the Shrew”, come to mind. Although, slight changes had to be made to the play in order to make it modernized and easy for this generation to understand. Many of themes hold true today. One of many similarities between the movie and the play is that most of the characters in
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Disguising happened in both movies, but different types of it took place. Hortensio and Lucentio, in “The Taming of the Shrew”, disguise themselves as tutors to woo Bianca. Joey, in “10 Things I Hate About You”, pretends to actually care about Bianca but he really wants other things from her. Cameron pretends to know French to get close to her as well. Likewise, the approach Patrick and Petruchio took to tame Kat/Katherine was not the same. Patrick was relentless in asking Kat out on a date and trying to convince to go by never giving her any time to herself. On the other hand, Petruchio acted just like Katherine on their honeymoon by treating people the way she treated them. Also, at times he took food and sleep away from her when she was not behaving well. In the end of the play, Petruchio was married to Katherine and he successfully changed her into an obedient wife but also won her heart. He kept the dowry. In the movie, Patrick actually saves the money and spends it on Kat by purchasing the one thing she has always wanted, a guitar. He did win Kat’s heart, but she did not show this by being obedient to …show more content…
It was probably easy for the writers to show men fighting for a pretty and desirable woman. This is a common scenario in movies today. Also, love is always part of life. People still today do silly things for love. Patrick/Petruchio never really meant to fall in love with Kat/Katherine, they just wanted the money. The result of both was love. Finally, it was simple for the writers to convey how people use disguise to get something they want. There were a couple of points in the play the writers may have struggled with modernizing without changing the theme of the play. People in our society no longer typically marry at the young age they did in the play, and the man definitely doesn’t get paid a dowry when the event takes place. The writer adapted it by changing marrying to dating and the dowry was turned into a bribe by a classmate. Moreover, the writers had to deal with how the play showed men controlling women. In the movie, they changed it by giving Kat more power and by making Patrick’s goal just to woo her instead of
Disguising happened in both movies, but different types of it took place. Hortensio and Lucentio, in “The Taming of the Shrew”, disguise themselves as tutors to woo Bianca. Joey, in “10 Things I Hate About You”, pretends to actually care about Bianca but he really wants other things from her. Cameron pretends to know French to get close to her as well. Likewise, the approach Patrick and Petruchio took to tame Kat/Katherine was not the same. Patrick was relentless in asking Kat out on a date and trying to convince to go by never giving her any time to herself. On the other hand, Petruchio acted just like Katherine on their honeymoon by treating people the way she treated them. Also, at times he took food and sleep away from her when she was not behaving well. In the end of the play, Petruchio was married to Katherine and he successfully changed her into an obedient wife but also won her heart. He kept the dowry. In the movie, Patrick actually saves the money and spends it on Kat by purchasing the one thing she has always wanted, a guitar. He did win Kat’s heart, but she did not show this by being obedient to …show more content…
It was probably easy for the writers to show men fighting for a pretty and desirable woman. This is a common scenario in movies today. Also, love is always part of life. People still today do silly things for love. Patrick/Petruchio never really meant to fall in love with Kat/Katherine, they just wanted the money. The result of both was love. Finally, it was simple for the writers to convey how people use disguise to get something they want. There were a couple of points in the play the writers may have struggled with modernizing without changing the theme of the play. People in our society no longer typically marry at the young age they did in the play, and the man definitely doesn’t get paid a dowry when the event takes place. The writer adapted it by changing marrying to dating and the dowry was turned into a bribe by a classmate. Moreover, the writers had to deal with how the play showed men controlling women. In the movie, they changed it by giving Kat more power and by making Patrick’s goal just to woo her instead of