Ten Things I Hate About You Essay

Intro

“All you need is love. Love is all you need.” ~ John Lennon.

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

Though they are based on the same play, Ten things I hate about you and the taming of the shrew are so different in the themes they portray. The love story of Ten things I hate about you is almost the opposite to the mysoginistic tale of wife taming that is the taming of the shrew. It just goes to show that Shakespeare often includes these darker themes into his works, and I that him and other modern day directors highlight these kinds of taboo like issues in society because it intrigues the audiences and makes them think about their own actions throughout life, and also about how this may have actually happened in real life. Both these films also really contrast how far the human race has come since the Elizabethan era in terms of gender equality and societal issues like the many that are portrayed in The taming of the shrew, turning the story from mysoginistic to a man freeing a