Compare And Contrast 10 Things I Hate About You And The Taming Of The Shrew

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

Imagine being separated into two different groups based on what side of town one lives on and what one wears, then imagine having to act a certain way when one feels a whole different way. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are two groups, Socs and the Greasers, they have a rivalry with each other; the Greasers are known for having bad reputations that will never go anywhere in life and are poor, while the Socs can be disrespectful to the community, but an asset to the community the next day, and with a lot of money. In the novel, S.E. Hinton includes Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to focus on the poem’s deeper meaning. When examining Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, one can analyze the usage of color, lost of innocence, and identity change.

Love is represented in many shapes and ideas based on social context as well as those caught within. William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew as well as its adaptation 10 Things I Hate About You by Gil Junger, represent their respective ideas on love which shares its similarities and differences, both portraying love in their own forms. Both texts highlight the ideals of love in their context as well as one of the main courtships, Katharina and Petruchio, involved in love, portraying their values of love.

10 Things I Hate About You takes William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Taming of the Shrew and manages to make it relevant to a modern audience. The story remains the same with the younger sister, Bianca, not allowed to have a relationship until her older sister, Kat, does. They did maintain several original scenes and even used several direct quotes from the original play. The writers have eliminated some of Bianca’s suitors and changed the way Kat is tamed to appeal to a modern audience. Shakespeare would have agreed with the casting of the movie. This movie may turn Shakespeare’s work into a teen comedy but it maintains many of the elements that made the play such a hit.

The City of Ladies has been regarded as the first book to speak out for women. Around the time of the book being written women were being portrayed as objects that are not equal to men. Christine picked up a book by Matheolus, a 13th-century writer. In the book, Matheolus was writing about marriage. He said that women make men's lives miserable. Christine felt distraught at being a woman. After thinking that, three women appeared next to Christine. Each woman represents a virtue. The three virtues tell Christine that she must build a city for the best women. The book continues teaching Christine about feminism and why men slander women. The City of Ladies can compare very well to A Thousand and One Nights. In A Thousand and One Nights, Sultan Shahrayar finds out that his wife is unfaithful, he kills her he also swears that he will marry a different woman every night. When the sun rises he will kill her. One of his wives, Scheherazade, told him half a story each night so that he lets her live to the next night, so she can complete the story. A lot of these stories had feminist and feminism theme in them, similar to The City of Ladies. By the end of the one thousand and one nights, Sultan Shahrayar’s idea about women changed. He respected women and thought they were equal to men.

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.

"Emotions are like waves. You cannot stop them from coming but you can decide which ones to surf". As described in this quote, we cannot delete our emotions but if we learn to surf the waves of our emotions and manage our thoughts and feel our feelings, we will be able to deal better with the difficult situations in life. Grief is the conflicting and strong emotion caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behaviour. Each individual deals with grief in very different ways. In Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" and William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", the main theme and emotion portrayed throughout the two works is grief with the intent of revenge. In Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones", the Salmon family find it difficult to grieve

Which would you rather be in a relationship with? A toxic person who is always trying to change you, or a caring person who loves you for you. There are a lot of differences between Patrick of 10 Things I Hate About You and Petruchio of The Taming of the Shrew. Patrick is a much more caring and loving person to Kate than Petruchio is to Katherine by means of why he was dating her, how he approached her to be able to date her, and his intentions for her.

The single most disturbing stereotype in both the play and movie is Kate’s. Kate is known for her shrewish behavior and untamable ways, which categorizes her in the unquiet woman stereotype. In The Taming of the Shrew, Hortensio goes to describe her as said before in saying, “Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee and wish thee to a shrewd, ill-favored wife? Thou’dst thank me but a little for my counsel. And yet I’ll promise thee she shall be rich, and very rich. But thou'rt too much my friend, and I’ll not wish thee to her”(1.2.58-63). In 10 Things I Hate About You, we continue to see the same tone about Katherine. Until Patrick comes along and changes her ways,

At the wedding of Hortensio and a widow, everyone is able to see just how “tamed” Katherine has became. She is now forever loyal to her husband, doing as he asks. The movie, “10 Things I hate about You”, in my opinion is very similar to Taming of the Shrew plot and story wise. Katherine is a hard-to-handle troublemaker in both stories with a man after her that’s just in it for the money (at first, anyways).

Similar to Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You also display the themes; love, greed, gender role, stereotypes, power and deception within certain events and characters. The theme love plays a major role within both the play and the movie and is evident through the characters Cameron and Bianca, and Kate and Patrick dating. To suit the modern society the director has smarty appropriated marriage to dating within the movie to make it more relatable for the viewers. Stereotypes are also commonly found within both the play and the movie. These include Bianca’s stereotypical girly girl and Kate the complete oppose as she is displayed as a stereotypical feminist.

A survey taking place in Connecticut showed that two thirds of 1,134 people would only marry a decent looking person, if they were wealthy (More americans Say They Would Marry for Money-- Even If It Doesn’t Buy Love). This shows that a large amount of people only care about the amount of money a person earns. This is seen greatly in the play “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare and in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, 10 things. The theme of superficial love is shown in different ways, in both stories, there is a form of fake love present, seen through the main characters. It shows that money goes deeper than true feelings in society, people look at the social acceptance level before their feelings for an individual.

The way that Shakespeare portrays the love between Bianca and Lucentio as well as the relationship between Katherina and Petruccio in The Taming of the Shrew sets the tone for the entire play. Similarly, the way in which Gil Junger portrays the love between Bianca and Cameron as well as the relationship between Kat and Patrick sets the tone for the film 10 Things I Hate About You. Whereas Shakespeare treats the stories of both of the couples with a degree of seriousness, Junger chooses to treat only the relationship between Kat and Patrick with a twinge of seriousness and portrays the relationship between Bianca and Cameron as a sort of materialistic and meaningless young love. This decision to depart from the seriousness written into the Shakespearean play helps shift the story into a modern time period, but it also changes the interpretation of the story entirely by adding a layer of disillusionment and taking away from the truth behind the original work. Junger’s film ultimately changes Shakespeare’s story to make it even more entertaining and less serious to the new audience.

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew introduces the audience to the Elizabethan era. The mindset of the people in this era might be hard to grasp for the modern reader. The demeaning treatment and subsequent submission of women is a constant theme in the play. During this era, women were meant to obedient, submissive, and compliant to their husband. Katherine Minola, the daughter of Baptista defies society’s standards and is known for her outspokenness and thus labeled a “shrew.” Due to her aggressive behavior, Baptista is having a difficult time finding a suitable husband for Katherine since she is not seen as an ideal and suitable wife according to society. Petruchio arrived in Padua to essentially “wive it wealthily” (53). He purses Katherine and receives her hand in marriage. Soon after, Petruchio makes it his mission in taming Katherine into an obedient and suitable wife. Although Katherine has made it difficult and stood her own ground in the beginning, one can see her evolution into a tamed and ideal wife by the end of the play.

The first aspect that arose in these two films is greed. Greed was described fairly well in the films through Popiel and Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Although the characters were placed in different centuries, the films did not fail