10 Things I Hate About You

For this analysis paper I have decided to focus on the concept of masculinity and how it was similar and how it differed between the play The Taming Of The Shrew and the movie 10 Things I Hate About You. Despite the cultural differences, I personally believe they did a decent job adapting a play that was written in the late 1500s into a 90s high school comedy. Though there were a lot of things that they change between the book and the movie to be more relevant to a more modern mindset. For Instance, In the play Petruchio showed his masculinity by showing his dominance over his wife Kathrine by “taming” her.

William Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew, and Gil Junger’s film, Ten Things I Hate About You, contain many elements that reflect the time period and society in which they were composed. The Taming of The Shrew strongly reflects on the idea of marriage being an economic agreement as well as the structured roles played by men and women that were prevalent in the 16th century and how gender affected the way a person can be viewed and courted in the same time period. This is contrasted by Gil Junger’s 1999 appropriation, Ten Things I Hate About You, in which modern teenage life and relationships are explored, touching on these same issues in relation to gender roles in a modern context. In this essay I will compare the roles of men and women in each text, as well as considering the difference in the two societies in terms of money, relationships and social status.

Texts like Taming Of the Shrew and Ten Things I Hate About You incorporate the convention of characterisation to heighten feminism. William Shakespeare's Taming of The Shrew conveys patriarchal discourse to establish the representation of women worthy of marriage as submissive and dutiful, principally through the historical reading. Ten Things I Hate About You uses film codes and conventions to express third-wave Feminist ideas towards

Hello and welcome respected audience of the Shakespeare Society. I would like to start today by thanking you for allowing me to speak on the topic of how the stereotypical roles of women have changed and evolved in a positive manner since the Elizabethan era. I will start by defining a few beneficial terms before discussing how Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew has been appropriated by Gil Junger’s in the 1999 movie, 10 Things I Hate About You.

The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era. For all the praises it has garnered throughout the centuries, it is curious to note that many have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. The "taming" of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. George Bernard Shaw himself pressed for its banning during the 19th century. The subservience of Katherine has been labeled as barbaric, antiquated, and generally demeaning. The play centers on her and her lack of suitors. It establishes in the first act her shrewish demeanor and its repercussions on her family. It is only with the introduction of the witty Petruchio as her suitor, that one begins to see an evolution in her character. Through an elaborate charade of humiliating behavior, Petruchio humbles her and by the end

Additionally, in both the play and film the characters are similar in names and characteristics, for example, Kate and Katherine are both portrayed and corresponded as “shrews”. In 10 things I Hate About You Kat is illustrated as very opinionated, verbally abusive, cruel and a b**** towards others in the modern day society, majorly it is her attitude and overall mouth that gets her into misconception with those she confronts. Whereas Kate in Taming of the Shrew is seen as more of a physically abusive than opinionated like-minded personnel in contrast to Kat in the film 10 Things I hate about you, we find that often when she gets anguish with an individual or has the desire of wanting something she expresses her views by assaulting others erratically

The main differences can be found in the plot. The original Shakespeare play is a love story between Lucentio and Bianca, (this is also true in the movie) but is also the story of Katherine and Petruchio and that story is quite different. In 10 Things, the ‘shrew’ that is Katarina Stratford is tamed when she falls in love with Patrick and starts being a bit less abrasive. The movie emphasises the fact that this was Kat’s choice and not her conforming to social norms. The difference is that in the original play, Kate does not choose to change her ways, she had to be tamed. And although the ‘taming’ of Kate was not Petruchio beating Kate into submission (as was common and accepted practice at the time) it was him manipulating her into no longer talking back to everything he said because, while Kate did love Petruchio, she acted in a way that was deemed inappropriate for a wife. An example of this is in Act IV: Scene 5 when the couple were travelling to Baptista’s house and Petruchio claims that,” It is the moon that shines so bright.” Kate retorts by telling Petruchio that, in fact, it is the sun that’s shining and Petruchio tells her that it’s whatever Petruchio wants it to be. At this point Kate realised that if she humoured Petruchio she would get what she wanted and began to become the ‘ideal wife’ that Petruchio wanted. The plots of both films of both films revolve around the role of women in a relationship but the original and the adaptation show opposing expressions of this. The Taming of the Shrew was about how women must be dutiful and respectful of their husbands whereas 10 Things I Hate About You emphasised how Kat was in control

The historical and cultural contexts of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (TTS) and the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You (10TIH) differ exceptionally, resulting in the film’s expression of values unlike those expressed in Shakespeare’s original text. Shakespeare’s play was written during the Elizabethan era, during which the belief that men were superior to women was prevalent. This concept is centralised in TTS, through incorporation of a disputably misogynistic tone and the dominance of men consequently forcing Katherina into marriage and submission. In contrast, 10TIH, a modern film appropriation of TTS, largely challenges the values of Shakespeare’s play. It presents to

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is an interesting story that demonstrates the patriarchal ideas of how a marriage is suppose to be according to society, what is acceptable of a woman's role in a relationship. It's a story that has many things to show for it's been remade, and remade, even slightly altered to better relate to the teenage audience.

The movie 10 Things I Hate About You(1999) is a film that was based off of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew that was a popular play in the 16th

People have always gone out of their way to obtain what they want. Whether this obsession is greed, power, or a person, one will go to great lengths to achieve it. The negative influence of money is widely know and is still manipulating humans in many ways. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare should not be performed to RBHS students because it sends a detrimental message to the audience that women are dehumanized through another’s desire for money.

The theatrical play of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ (1594) and the live action film ’10 Things I Hate About You’ (1999) are clearly similar in many ways (as the drama film is a modern adaptation of the classic Shakespearean text), these similarities can be recognized through themes which point out scenes, quotes and/or effects both text types share with each other. Themes include, Gender Politics/Roles, Romantic Relationships and Social Hierarchy (social status/class). The themes of Gender Politics and Social Hierarchy support the precisely represented similarities both text types share, highlighting the enduring provenance of these concerns over time.

The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You are romantic comedies. Even though they are written 400 years apart, they have many similarities. The many similarities are because 10 Things I Hate About You was loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew. However, there are some differences in some of the characters. One character that stands out from both, The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You, is Katherine and Katarina. Both characters do not care what others think about them and both act like they do not like their men when they really do. Although there are many comparisons, there are also a few differences. One major difference is that they both play a different role in the taming sequence.

The story of The Taming of the Shrew is one that raises important issues both in the Shakespearean text and in the modern appropriation 10 Things I Hate About You.

The movie 10 Things I Hate About You is comparable to the book The Taming of the Shrew. William Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew with the focus of marriage in the 1500s. 10 Things I Hate About You is a romantic comedy that was made in the 1900s. In The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You, Petruchio and Patrick are similar because they are manipulative and indifferent to other’s opinions of themselves; however, Patrick is more compassionate.