Two liquids lie in front of someone, one is clear as crystals and sits in a golden cup labeled water, the other is in a bottle incrusted with mud and grim labeled with skull and crossbones. Both have lids sealed on tight. Which do they drink? As the liquid pours out of the golden cup it smells of chemicals and it poisonous to taste, but the liquid from the dirty bottle is pure and clear. Do they still want to drink from the golden cup? The way something appears or is identified as is not always true. Sometimes a deeper look is needed to see what is inside. The movie 10 Things I Hate About you and the play Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare both deal with how the identity society gives someone can affect the way they act, no matter who …show more content…
Her own father warns Petruchio about her shrewish attitude even though he wants to court her, “Well Mayst thou woo, and happy be they speed but be thou armed for some unhappy words” (Taming of the Shrew 2.1. 145-146). She is jealous of Bianca, because Katherine wants to be wanted, and does not want her shrew identity, but she has given up on trying to overcome it. The movie 10 Things I hate about You, has similar aspects showing Kat has reasons for her attitudes. It is clear that Kat’s mother has left, and Kat has had a break up with her sister’s new boyfriend, Joey. Trying to deal with wanting love, the young Kat had a sexual relationship with Joey, and when she realized her mistake she expressed that she did not want to continue, so Joey broke up with her. In 10 Things I hate about you in the scene that Kat sits on Bianca’s bed she tells Bianca of her past mistakes to prevent her from making the same ones, this that even her own sister was not aware of Kat’s reasoning for her actions. Katherine and Kat were hurt many times in life, but once they received their shrew identities, it combined with emotions and both characters gave into societal expectations. When someone acts a certain way, people tend to judge them without knowing their true motives, and this causes people to act out …show more content…
Sometimes a deeper look is needed to see what is inside. In Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew and in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You the underlying theme of identity stands out to show this. No matter how much a character changed they were still viewed with their old identity. However, they both do show that no matter how society treats someone, if they want to they can be true to themselves and break the rules of societies judgements. Also, both plots show that people act the way they do for a reason. Now, two liquids sit in front of someone. One in a beautiful golden cup, the liquid is as clear as crystals, and the label says water. Next to it sits a bottle incrusted with mud and grim labeled with skull and crossbones Both have lids sealed on tight. Which will they drink? But before a drink is taken, take off both lids. Identities can be deceiving, take a closer look to see what truly lies
The search for one’s identity can be a constant process and battle, especially for teenagers and young adults. Many people have a natural tendency to want to fit in and be accepted by others, whether it be with family, friends or even strangers. They may try to change who they are, how they act, or how they dress in order to fit in. As one gets older, society can influence one’s view on what they should look like, how they should act, or how they should think. If society tells us that a certain body type or hair color is beautiful, that is what some people strive for and want to become in order to be more liked. This was especially true with Avery as she longed for the proper clothes to fit into a social group and began to change the way she spoke to match those around her. As a young and impressionable sixth grader, she allowed herself to become somewhat whitewashed in an attempt to fit in with the other girls. However, Avery did not really become friends with any of those girls; her only real friend was
Through history people have tended to judge the lives of other by what they see on the outside, and completely disregard their actually character. “Stereotyping in the World” today has become a greater and greater problem has history moves on. Some have been known to look past these cases such as Reginald Rose’s book Twelve Angry Men. The play has been shown that one voice can change the thoughts of many by getting past the first layer and breaking it down to their inner person. Twelve Angry Men has showed the theme of “Stereotyping in the World” through the characters’ proper reasoning, communicating, and believing in good faith.
Our lives are defined by our experiences of growing up and of who people are when people are developing. Both, in their respective regards, are something that can be difficult to alter to the individual. Gender, race, classes, and other building blocks of our identity are always shifting to who anyone is and while a person can’t affect themselves, society can, and often does change their perspective towards their own identity and how they interact with the stimulation outside of their psyche.
John Lennon is a wise man, but is this quote accurate when used in context with the taming of the shrew? The 1999 film Ten things I Hate about you and the 1967 film Taming of The Shrew are both based on shakespeare's 1592 play of the latter name, The Taming of the shrew. Both films follow the plot of shakespeare’s earlier play, but to what extent is arguable. Ten things I hate about you is a modernised version of the play, so many of the original aspects have been changed to appeal to a modern audience. Some of the main features of the original storyline have been cut or changed, and this is because they are too dark to include include for a modern audience. Scenes where Petruchio starves Kate and refuses to let her sleep are all examples of the darker theme of this play. This may have been an acceptable theme during the era that Taming of the shrew was first developed, as views on a women's
Appearance does not always agree with reality. A limited view on an event or a subject will likely lead to a limited or even false conclusion. For example, in Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth, the Scottish nobles viewed main character Macbeth as a "bloody tyrant"; for the readers, Macbeth is not total evil character, but nearly a hero with much physical strength and greatness. Only if he didn’t betray his king, he would’ve been a great thane. This essay is going to be dealt with this difference in appearance and reality of Macbeth
She is miserable and desperate because she wants a husband but does not like the way women are treated. In pursuit to be happy in life she decides to marry Petruchio. Petruchio tames her and her shrewish ways begin to fade away. She listens to her husband, obeys his commands, she does not talk back, and she agrees with everything he says. Katherine disguises being a shrew by taking up the role of a modern wife in that time.
Identity is defined as being oneself and not acting or being something else. The identity that one forms throughout their life time is a slow and tedious process, each and every event in one’s life whether it’s larger or small scale has an effect on developing ones overall identity. In the play Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Taylor, Janice it caught between two identities and struggles to find a happy medium. Being adopted into a white family at a young age, Janice has become accustom to many of the white traditions and ways. Janice’s native family has recently gotten in touch with her and has put a great deal of pressure on her to regain some of the native culture she was born into. With pressure building Janice begins to question her identity and begins to show signs that she wants nothing to do with her native roots. Drew Hayden Taylor does an excellent job in this play showing how stereotypes and pre-conceived notions affect ones identity and their relationships within society. Each character within the play shows how their identity has been shaped through the relationships they have acquired throughout their lives; Tonto’s identity is heavily influenced by his father and best friend Rodney, Barb is influenced by the customs and traditional ways of her mother, and Janice after being adopted at a young age has formed an identity revolving around that of her adopted parents but she faces a great deal of pressure from her native birth family.
Miguel de Cervantes once said that “truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water”. The tragedy of Macbeth is a strong example that reflects this reality from many points of view. The whole play opens up with this idea through the witches, but the climax and crucial meaning of this topic lays in Macbeth himself. By creating a tragic hero, whose selfish intentions are well hidden behind a mask of appearances, irony and falsity, Shakespeare conveys the idea that appearances can be deceptive but that truth will eventually be discovered and the one who hides it, punished.
Think of a stacking doll. Each outer doll removed reveals another; smaller and more volnerable than the previous. With each section combined there is a whole, but with only a section you cannot see the doll in it’s entirety and it is impossible to see whether another is hiding inside. Ones identity is similar. With little knowlege of a person it is impossible to know what is inside and whether there is more to see. Identity is broader than one word definitions, different aspects such as feelings and memories contribute. In order to get the full sense of who a person is, the inner layers must be revealed.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”(Harper Lee). Every human being tends to view certain things in their own different and unique way. Perception is one of the most antique aspects of human interaction and behavior. How we perceive things is different than others, some will see the glass either half empty or as half full it just depends how we look at things.
The poem from the movie 10 Things I Hate About You of the same name uses multiple uses of the appeal pathos in order to empathize with the character Kat Stratford. She is also able to tie in ethical appeals when reciting her poem to her class as well. A combination of these appeals, as well as her emotion during the movie, is targeted toward the character Patrick Verona and the movie audience. Considering how the movie ends I would say she was successful when using these appeals.
Throughout the ages, people have been deceived by appearances. Whether it is a first impression or a superficial relationship, the old adage to “not judge a book by it’s cover” is ageless. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare captured that aspects of deceit by creating a few characters who seem to be innocent and trustworthy, but as the play proceeds, their heart’s wickedness surpasses the fake outward appearance. People should temper judgment. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s innocent appearance gives way to deceitful and evil desires.
In my section of the anthology I chose two poems that I had known and loved since my middle school years, 10 Things I Hate About You from the 1999 movie, and Annabel Lee by Edger Allan Poe. Rounding out my set of three was a newer find of mine, A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. I chose the first two poems for the lasting impact that they have had on my life as a young adult, and the last because of how it affected me towards the end of my young adult years. Fitting in the larger theme of love, each of these poems respectively are charged with enough emotion to make them borderline melodramatic, which is why I selected them to represent love poetry in this young adult anthology.
Daniel Webster once said, "The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it." In other words, much of what goes on in the world is due to the masks that people wear, rather than showing their true faces. Individuals must present themselves in the way that they want others to believe they truly are. In most cases, ambitions overthrow a person's moral conscience. As their aspirations rise, they must create a false exterior in order to not reveal their traitorous secrets. The treasonous plot of William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, causes the characters to appear a certain way in order to hide their true passions. The namesake Macbeth, his wife and many of King Duncan's
In the opening scene of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the three witches start off by chanting "Fair is foul and foul is fair". This is a obvious contradiction and paradox that will be seen throughout the entire rest of the play. The theme of appearance vs reality occurs regularly throughout the story. Even though the characters are very real in their actions and ideas many of them, through the whole story, have a hard time figuring out whether what's happening is real and what isn't. Also he says through the entire play that it's easy to be deceived and also to deceive somebody else. This play is full of smaller motifs and themes that make up the larger one I'm writing about like rumors and fears, vague language, and true stuff hidden inside riddles.