The comparison of William Shakespeare play and the appropriated film “10 things I hate about you” allows you into the world were stories last forever but views presented by them cant. Most of Shakespeare plays have been turned into movies for the people of today as to please a wider audience and this play is no exception. “10 Things I hate about you” directed by Jill Ganger is an adaption of the play Taming of the Shrew. Although change of settings and characteristics, the themes are still carried through. The most important themes, I think we can all agree, is Social Status which is still very important for the people of today as it was centuries ago. Stereotype which plays a large part in the real world to where we are quick to judge and …show more content…
In the film she is seen as a feminist who acts as if she couldn’t care and “angry girl music” is played as soon as a scene is focused on her. Although from different times and place both female characters are seen as feminist in there respected time. Katherine of the 17th century has a great sense of individuality but her actions were not welcomed by the audience of that era. “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.” When Katerina states this she is telling all that she will speak from the heart and do as she wished. She is reluctant to marry just as the 21st century Kate is very disgusted at the idea of dating. Kat even went as far as to say “Have you seen the unwashed miscreants that go to that school.” In the play Katerina has no freedom and is forced to go along with expectations, finally giving in in the end. Kat is angered when her individuality is taken away from her. She is especially mad when her Dad does not agree with her choice in college. Although Kat has more individuality over Katerina as she has a different dress sense and opinions that are not constantly getting her in serious trouble but all Katerina has is her ability to scare away man to get back at her
Good morning/ afternoon ladies and gentlemen I am Gil Junger and I am present here today to inform you on how I appropriated the Shakespearean play "The Taming of the Shrew" into the modern day teen flick "10 Things I Hate About You" , whilst still being able to keep the key themes and values evident throughout the film.
Kathrine knew that she was meant to do so much more than to sit around and let other people play the game, this thought of equality was instilled in her young by her father who said to her ‘"Cheerleaders cheer for other people, You want people to cheer for you. The game is on the field. Life is to participate, not to spectate."’(ESPN). This stuck with her through life, she was a fighter and when she knew it was time to run her race Kathrine remember this and it pushed her through even at her weakest, and most vulnerable of times. Men didn't understand that she or any women was much more than a housewife, Katherine throughout her life dealt with this conflict. Katherine when explaining how women were treated in that time said "Let me paint you a picture about the status quo for women when I was growing up, we have a box here, and a woman's job is to mind the house, her husband, take care of the kids and be feminine and domestic." (ESPN). This is so significant because you can see how women were oppressed by this statement and how she had used her strength and pushed through the oppression not only by word, but by force and you can see this when she was physically harmed during Boston. While running Boston as I just stated she was physically attacked by the
“The Taming Of The Shrew” by William Shakespeare is a work of satire created to criticize the misogynistic outlooks of the 16th century. With this play, Shakespeare is trying to say that the idea and role of women in his society is deeply flawed and should be fixed, as well as to make other social commentaries, such as on the treatment of servants. Through exaggeration and parody, Shakespeare makes society look silly.
The first of many situations was when she states that “ I see a woman may be made a fool if she had the spirit to resist” (line 225-226 The taming of the shrew), which means that as a woman she had such strong apparent beliefs of feminism to be opposed to that idea but at the end she let herself be made a fool and her spirit of resisting wasn’t apparent anymore and because of this she has gone on to “Unto the taming school” (4.2.54) to let herself become a proper wife and no longer display the traits of feminism and only be the idea that women must do what their husband says without any say about it because as Laura Hollins Hughes states that “ A play that climaxes with an apparent happy ending in which a woman is offering to make herself a doormat to her husband” is the same as Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew becoming the opposite of twho she is and becoming a doormat that “Any well educated woman in the 20th or 21st century should approach with great caution because you might be in great danger of reaffirming a patriarchal society”(Hughes) which in the era where is written women were portrayed as
In the beginning of the play Kate is “consistently in opposition to everything around her”2, meanwhile “Bianca obeys so gently and with such sweet submission that it is obvious why she is Baptista’s favorite daughter”2. In the end of the play, the roles switch and Katherina is submissive to every word of Petruchio and Bianca resists the commands of her new husband.
Over the past 400 or so years since Shakespeare wrote _The Taming of the Shrew_, many writers, painters, musicians and directors have adapted and reformed this play of control and subjugation into timeless pieces of art. In _10 Things I Hate About You_ and Kiss Me Kate from two very different times in the twentieth century, and paintings of Katherina and Bianca from the late nineteenth century, the creators of these adaptations have chosen to focus on the role of the two main female characters in the play. The ideas surrounding these women have changed through the years, from Katherina and Bianca simply being young women who deviated from the norm of Shakespeare’s time to women who embody feminist ideals and stereotypes of the more modern world.
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In this marriage Katherine has no power. She is verbally abused by Petruchio and denied what she needs. As said in the article,“ Kate is transformed after enduring the irrational world of Petruchio 's country house, where she is denied food, sleep, and fashionable accoutrements of her social class” (Karen 263). Katherine is tamed and she praises and respects him now that she is tamed. At the end of the play, when Katherine and Petruchio are at the wedding, Katherine is the only woman out of all at the wedding that actually listens to her husband when they all call their wives. Katherine ends up giving them a speech and telling them to respect their husband: “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head thy sovereign, one that cares for thee And for thy maintenance commits his body” (Shakespear V. ii . 162-164). She respects who he is and all the work that he does for her. Petruchio has the power in marriage because she respects him and his
From the beginning of Kat’s life, she was at odds with her environment. When she was a child, she was Katherine, a doll like representation of what her mother wanted her to be. As a teenager she was Kathy, a representation of what she believed others wanted, “a bouncy, round-faced [girl] with gleaming freshly washed hair and enviable teeth, eager to please and no more int...
Her personality is strong and she is independent, unlike most women. This makes her unattractive to most suitors and gains her the label of shrew. She demonstrates her personality in the beginning of the play: "I pray you sir, is it your will to make a stale of me amongst these mates?" (1.1 57-58). Shakespeare uses the characterization of Kate to demonstrate the defiance against traditional gender roles and how Kate almost immediately speaks out for herself, unlike her sister Bianca. In addition, Kate describes her future husband as a "mate," unlike how most women would describe their lovers. Moreover, Kate is educated: "I 'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear: I wis it is not half way to her heart; But if it were, doubt not her care should be to comb your noodle with a three-legg 'd stool and paint your face and use you like a fool." (1.1 61-65). Shakespeare uses the characterization of Kate to demonstrate how she defies traditional gender roles by being the only person to speak in iambic pentameter. This demonstrates her intelligence unlike many women. In addition, Kate doesn 't enjoy receiving orders from others. When her father leaves with Bianca and tells Kate she may stay, she gets angry. "Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not? What, shall I be appointed hours; as though, belike, I knew not what to take and what to leave, ha? (1.1 103-105). Shakespeare uses the characterization of Kate to
Characterization plays an important role when conveying how one’s personality can disintegrate by living in a restrictive society. Although Kat is slowly loosing her mind, in the story, she is portrayed as a confident woman who tries to strive for excellence. This can be seen when she wants to name the magazine “All the Rage”. She claims that “it’s a forties sounds” and that “forties is back” (311). However the board of directors, who were all men, did not approve. They actually “though it was too feminist, of all things” (311). This passage not only shows how gender opportunities is apparent in the society Kat lives in, but also shows the readers why Kat starts to loose her mind.
In this piece, it can be translated that women would be considered a rebel if she is rude and shrewish to her husband. In all, wives are objects to their husbands, and must do all that her husband says. This limited Katherine’s identity because it took away her personality of being a shrew, and turned her into something she wasn’t; kind and
This play has many themes of patriarchy concerning the roles of males and females in a marriage, the authority of fathers over their families, husbands over wives, and men over women (Bloom 13). In the title alone, there's the indication of the husband over the wife, the "taming" of the shrew (16), and the word shrew that is chosen to describe Katherine is somewhat demeaning. In modern day society there is no such boundaries put on women. There should not be one party who overpowers the other one. It is a marriage, a bond that is shared, and each should be respected in the same way. Today, women and men are equals in a marriage, or at least in the United States. Women are no longer as oppressed as they once were. This play is rather primitive on the views of women in society.
"10 things I hate about you" produced by Gill Junger is a modern telling of Shakespeare's "the taming of the shrew". Although with both texts being produced in separate decades they still manage to show the same themes and issues. The film "10 things I hate about you" explores the ideas of peer pressure, individualism and trust with the use of setting, camera angles and costumes. Ultimately "10 things I hate about you" has exhibited a Variety of themes which could potentially aid teenagers into making correct decisions.
In summary, William Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew, explores the context in which he wrote it, highlighting some of the most prominent ideals and values of the Renaissance period in 17th century Europe. The play explores the inequality of power between genders, loyalty and obedience and the importance it plays in relationships and the social repression of females. These contextual elements, combined with the elements of fiction writing (characters, plot, theme, setting and style) work hand-in-hand to create a text laced with moral and social questions, satirical criticisms of the Renaissance and Shakespeare’s personal views of women.