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    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

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    “10 things I hate about you” and “The Taming of the Shrew” are similar to each other in many ways but at the same time they are very different. Both fall under the category romantic comedy, deal with relationships, and have happy endings. So how are they so much alike but so different? “10 things I hate about you” is a story based off of “The Taming of the Shrew” Both plots are about love but the time periods and the idea of marriage are different from Shakespeare and the 1990’s. In both Kat and

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    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

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    have not done their due diligence to Shakespeare’s timeless masterpieces. The characters in 10 Things I Hate About You were carefully constructed to accurately represent Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew, in modern day time while preserving Shakespeare’s initial version. The main character in Taming of the Shrew, Katherine, is referred to as Kat in the blockbuster film, 10 Things I Hate About You in order to modernize the adaptation. Both Katherine and Kat are outspoken, bold young women

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    The relationships of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You are drastically different due to the time period. In Taming of the Shrew Kat and Pertchio were just people that got married and Pertchio didn’t really love her that much. He just wanted to tame the untamable. Kat over time started to respect Pertchio and did what she was told. Over time the couples just started to respected each other more and more. In 10 Things I Hate About You Kate and Patrick get together because Patrick

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    The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You are very similar in a lot of ways and different as well. The main difference that stood out to me was the way the guy pursuing Kat treated her. A few other things were their father’s rule about dating and marriage, and they were at different events when they found out what was really going on. There were as many similarities as differences, though. Both of Kat’s suitors, who were Petruccio and Patrick, got something out of going on a date with

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    misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers.” The Taming of The Shrew and Ten Things I Hate About You, are both considered to be of the romantic comedy genre, and focus on culminate in a happy ending. The story line of Ten Things I Hate About You is based on the same basic plot as The Taming of The Shrew. Both films are also about love and relationships, but they depict how sexism has changed over many generations. Studying these film texts illustrates

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    Name: Menna Alaa Student number: 142 Subject: Women Studies ' '10 Things I Hate About You ' ' Chick Flick Analysis A Chick Flick as broadly agreed upon is the kind of films that mostly appeal to a female audience. Even the name itself is a bit offensive. It implies that films having female characters are appealing just to women spectators, and films with men, as protagonists are more commonly considered as widespread, while

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    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

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    adaption of the Shakespearean comedy. Three decades later, director Gil Junger assembled the second movie adaption of the play, the modernised version, called 10 Things I Hate About You. Today I will be speaking about how the Shakespearean play The Taming of the Shrew was successfully adapted into the modern day teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You, whilst still being able to preserve key themes and values throughout the film, reflecting modern cultural assumptions, beliefs and attitudes. This was evident

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