The Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare 's play “Taming of the Shrew” and the 1990’s film, 10 Things I Hate About You,both aim to reflect the common ideas of- relationships, feminism, appearance verus reality and transformation. However, the context and intended audience of both texts forces varied representations and interpretations of these ideas. The use of film techniques and modern day music are used in 10 Things to appeal to a modern audience, while Taming of the Shrew is represented using literary techniques. 10…

period were privileged over women. Whereas in contemporary society, men and women are seen as mostly equal. This is shown in the film texts studied this term, the two films studied were The Taming Of The Shrew made in 1967 and the other was Ten Things I Hate About You made in 1999. In The Taming of The Shrew all the men are controlling most aspects of life and when Petruchio forces Katherina into marrying him, this is seen as comical, despite the fact that she is forced has to marry Petruchio…

Compare and contrast the ways that McEwan, Shakespeare and Chaucer present central female characters in Atonement, The Taming of the Shrew and The Miller’s Prologue and Tale. Miller’s Tale The Miller’s tale is one of 24 selected stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are primarily written in verse, with the author telling tales through observation in which he creates an image of what English society was at the time. This is done through description of stock characters,…

Kate is the maiden daughter of Baptista Minola. She is widely believed to be a “shrew” by many. A “shrew” is a label given to hot-tempered, aggressive women. Shrews tend to have quite the tongue. Early on in this play, the audience witnesses constant insults directed towards the male characters around her. She also performs physical acts of anger against the men who provoke her. Kate does not act like a shrew because that is who she is; she acts like one because she is unhappy and desperate. Her…

Eric Minton’s thesis is accurate in his essay “Who is the Misogynist Monster: Petruchio, Shakespeare, or You?” because it mentions Taming of the Shrew as not being misogynist, and Petruchio and Kate having a stable relationship. Minton indicates that the play is not misogynist because of how Kate is able to be assertive and insulting. In Taming of the Shrew, Katherine says, “If I be waspish, best beware my sting” (II.i.208). Katherine is insulting Petruchio in this scene and shows how…

“In a world that viewed women as the "weaker sex," Shakespeare wrote some of the strongest female characters in literature…we can almost definitely call him a kick-ass proto-feminist” (Bustle). William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew are two of Shakespeare’s plays that “portray a social order in disarray and two women who defy the rigid confines of their gender” (Jardine 134). The two female protagonists in these works, Juliet and Katherine have a great deal in common…

(Daniell 73). Following this pattern, Kate’s and Petruccio’s newfound gentleness would also seem to be an illusion, a disguise of sorts that would be unsatisfying it if turned out to be genuine. Given the play-within-a-play structure of The Taming of the Shrew, it is natural to focus on the theatrics of the characters and assume Kate and Petruccio are using such artifice to cultivate a public persona that allows both of them to find public acceptance while keeping “all their contradictions—and…

The lack of mother hood in Taming of the Shrew caused a sense of vulnerability to both girls. Katherine may have seen the way the mother acted and is either mimicking or trying to avoid how her mom was. If you look at the synetic theater’s version of the taming of the shrew it starts off with Batista (the girls father), Katherine, and Bianca are all at the gravesite of there mom preparing for the burial of the mother.If you have yet to take notice that in the vast majority of Shakespeare's plays…

In Shakespeare’s time, the role of women was to cook and clean, respect her husband, and be loyal to her husband. They were also to be seen and not heard. However, in The Taming of the Shrew, Kate is anything but those qualities. She is loud and rambunctious. She speaks her mind, and does not let a man tell her what to do. These character traits make her seem less desirable to the majority of the males in the play. However, she ends up being the most tamed of the wives in the end. When…

In The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare starts out by creating a shrewd character known as Katherine, but he later transforms her into a distinctly behaved and collected lady, providing his audience with an unexpected ending. Shakespeare initially constructs Katherine as a disagreeable young woman, and so her change in manner truly shocks the audience and leaves a lasting impression on them. For instance, in the beginning of the play, all the other characters despise Katherine and label her as…