large portion of the population. In The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in an ambiguous manner conveys certain aspects of the dominant social issues during the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare presents his outlook throughout the play by primarily…
Question #1 Shakespeare’s plays often involve gender roles. Both Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew are plays written about men and women and love, or the lack thereof. In both examples this led to marriage and the genders were clearly separated. While Romeo and Juliet is a sad tragedy about love, The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy written about gender roles. For example, in Shakespeare’s time, women were expected to be seen and not heard. Katherine was the opposite of what a…
In both Taming of the Shrew and Kiss Me Kate we see the characters perform actions that can be seen in both the play by Shakespeare and the 1948 musical by Bella and Sam Spewack. Two comparisons of the play and movie are the shrew(K/L) being starved by P/F, and the jealousy exhibited between the two sisters Kate and Bianca. In Kiss Me Kate, Fred is able to gain control over lily by starving her throughout the production. He claims it is for her own good, because it will give her indigestion on…
them what’s best for them. There are two plays that will be compared in this essay the first is The taming of the Shrew and the other is Romeo and Juliet. Both of these pieces of literature show how the fathers attempt to control the actions…
been made to fit the present day storylines. The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's plays that has slowly been modified to fit modern times while still using the same storyline. In 10 Things I Hate About You and The Taming of the Shrew, the same storyline is followed, yet the way the story is depicted affects the way we understand literature from the past, although it has been modified to benefit us in today’s society. Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things About You follow the…
Taming a shrew isn’t easy. It takes a lot of time and work. In the play The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio marries Katherine the “shrew”. Katherine’s father, Baptista, wants Katherine to marry for money. Since Petruchio was most wealthy, Katherine married him. She didn’t marry him for love, hence the theme “Money and Relationships”, which is expressed a lot throughout the play. The media piece that corresponds with this theme is the song “For the Love of Money” by Dr. Dre. This song demonstrates…
deeper than love. This is seen in Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and 10 Things I Hate About You through the relationships of Petruchio/Patrick and Katherine. Joey, a lover of Bianca is so deeply in In Taming of The Shrew by William Shakespeare Katherine changes mentally throughout the novel. She starts out as a very abusive and ignorant individual. While she is a young knowledge individual she demands that no one shall court her. Katherine is a shrew that is strong willed. She shows…
In Shakespeare’s Taming of a Shrew, the majority of the plot revolves around how Bianca can’t date until Katharina can date. The movie, “10 Things I Hate about You”, is essentially the same way. Both stories take place in a location known as Padua, and in this town, almost every guy has the hots for Bianca, but definitely not for her silver-tongued sister. As most people could see, this would cause a huge conflict for everyone involved. Luckily for the audience, Shakespeare decides to write the…
Taming of the Shrew, a play written by William Shakespeare and 10 Things I Hate About You a movie that is based off of Taming of the Shrew are very similar and different. Both of these have their parts that are like a mirror to one another but then there are other parts that seem to be like a mirror from a circus. Hence the timeline choice for 10 Things I Hate About You is a perfect example for differences in between these two scripts. While both stories were written in their modern times, the…
The comedic play The Taming of the Shrew and the tragedy King Lear show a number of similarities, including the subject of appearance versus reality. The daughters of King Lear, Regan and Goneril, fake their image similarly to Bianca, the daughter of Baptista. These three characters’ true colors are revealed throughout the plays, illustrating how deceptive they were to the people around them, but in the end the affects of the characters attitudes essentially has different results. Goneril and…