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In the play, Taming of the Shrew, and the movie, 10 Things I hate about you, the characters can be hostile towards each other for what may seem like no reason; I know that there is a deeper meaning to these feelings because no matter what, they still want to be with each other, and this is shown through Lucentio straight out lying to Bianca, but Bianca still wanted to be with him. Through out this essay, I will be tossing around the idea of how and why they act the way they do. The play taming of the shrew is about a man named Baptista who doesn’t want his daughter Bianca getting married until Katherine does because he fears that Katherine will not get married otherwise. One day a man named petruchio comes to town and changes all of that, thus …show more content…
trying to court Katherine. All while this is happening, lucentio is pretending to be Bianca’s teacher in order to court her.
After this is all said and done, petruchio ends up getting Katherine and lucentio gets Bianca, but both Bianca and Katherine are changed in dramatic ways. In the movie 10 things I hate about you, The characters stay the same, and their reasoning stay the same, but the names are changed and the outcomes are a little different. In the movie, Patrick/Petruchio changes a lot and Katherine does not change at all. In the end Katherine is the one who changes Patrick because he calms him down and makes him into a good guy. Lucentio, Bianca, and Baptista stay almost completely the same except for the reasoning behind Baptista. Baptista doesn’t want them dating at all, so he made the rule that the only way the Bianca gets to do anything is if Katherine is also doing …show more content…
it. During the beginning of the play, baptista talks about how he doesn’t want Bianca getting married until Kat does, “I’m determined not to permit my younger daughter to marry until I have a husband for the elder one.”, Thus showing that he does care for his daughter, but there may be something more to this.
I think that he fears that his daughter Kat may never get married so hes trying to help her by forcing a marriage. This is show through this quote, “Gentlemen, I’ve made my decision. That’s all there is to it. Go inside, Bianca.”. Through this quote you can see that Baptista is flexing his power and also assertively commanding Kat in order to try and help the situation. This is a classic dad move that Im sure every kid knows about, thus expressing his love toward Kat while also showing who is the boss, plus he is also helping get her married, all at the same time. During the movie, it is shown throughout that he is strictly opposed to them dating and constantly remind them that boys are the devil and that all they want is sex. It is shown through this quote, Kissing? That's what you think happens? I've got news for you. Kissing isn't what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day long.”. It shows that he knows exactly what goes through guy’s heads during Prom and that he does not want his girls doing anything of the sort. I think that he doesn’t want them going to prom is coupled with this and the fact that he doesn’t want them running off and turning into their mother
that is mentioned throughout the movie. Baptista is a character that not cares for his daughters, but wants the best for them. His intentions may be good at heart, but his method of helping his daughters is flawed at best. So in the beginning of both the play and the movie Patrick/Petruchio are hated by Katherine for the same reason. Patrick/Petruchio is someone that is trying to break down her walls and she is just acting the way that she has been conditioned to act. This is shown through this quote, “May I ask, sir, if it’s your intention to publicly humiliate me, showing me off like a whore in front of these suitors?” In this quote she is shown to be an abrasive, unruly, demon of a person that doesn’t want anything to do with any of the suitors that her father has allowed in his home. Most of her life she has been treated as this crazy bitch that gets no love and now she’s just acting like the person they made her into. Now the reason that Petruchio is attracted to her is because of her money, shown here, She moves me not—or not removes at least Affection’s edge in me, were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.” He is blatantly saying that he wants nothing but money from the family that he is married into and has no love for Katherine. Patrick is getting paid to date Katherine, but he is spending the money that he has earned on her. His intentions are to actually date her and ends up with her in the end. So naturally, in both the movie and the play, Kat tries to shut him out and keep him away, expecting him to scamper on home like all the rest of the people she talks to, but, to her surprise, he does not run off, and instead keeps prodding her and talking to her in order to get to know her. it is shown in this quote, “ “PETRUCHIO: Come, come, you wasp, i’faith you are too angry. KATHERINE: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. PETRUCHIO: My remedy is then to pluck it out. KATHERINE: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. PETRUCHIO: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. KATHERINE: In his tongue. PETRUCHIO: Whose tongue? KATHERINE: Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell. PETRUCHIO: What, with my tongue in your tail…..” This of course peeks her interest and she of course then starts to grow and attachment to him. This is the same for the movie and she, again, grows an attachment to Patrick. In the movie, Katherine doesn’t want to let him in because everyone around is always really mean to her and to have someone that wasn’t mean to her really threw her off. This then allowed for Patrick to tear down her walls and allow for him to get closer to her. I think that Katherine was waiting her entire life for someone like Petruchio or Patrick to come along and save her from herself. The last point that I would like to make about character interactions is more about the movie than the play. While in the play these characters do know of each other, I don’t think they care about each other’s existence. Though the opposite is true in the movie because lucentio is the main reason that Patrick even gets together with Katherine. In the beginning of the movie, Patrick and lucentio don’t even know each other, until Lucentio prompts Petruchio with an offer, thus striking a deal and allowing for him to go after Bianca. Throughout the movie you can see them becoming better friends, as shown here, “Lucentio: she never wanted me. She wanted Joey the whole time. Patrick: Lucentio, Do you like the girl? Lucentio: Yeah Patrick: And is she worth all this trouble? Lucentio: Well, I thought she was, but you know, I… Patrick: Well she is or she isn’t. See forrst of all, Joey is not half the man you are, Secondly, don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Go for it.” As you can see, Patrick is trying to comfort Lucentio because he doesn’t want to see his partner, his friend, give up. He wants him to see it through to the end and come out a winner, and in the end, they both come out winners with the girls. In conclusion, the reason that some of the characters act the way that they do can be confusing at times, but when you break it down, it becomes easy to unstand why they do the things they do. I think that a lot of the characters in both the movie and the play are shallow enough that most people could pick a lot of this stuff up on their own, but in the end, it’s how you interpret it.
The main characters in the movie are Lilli and Fred. They are a divorced couple who play Katherina and Petruchio. They are a divorced couple who are very unpleasant to each other. The clash on stage as well as off stage. This helps her relate better to her character. In the play, Petruchio is very nice to Katherina before they get married. He tells her that he can put up with her and that he was born to tame her. Once they are married, everything changes. He begins to act very mean, which is ultimately the reason for her change. In the movie, Fred does many things that upset Lilly and make her want to quit the play before the performance is even over. However at he end, Lilli and Fred End up reconciling, as do Katherina and Pertruchio. If watched closely, the viewers can see her pull out a black book from his coat and throw it away. This would be a sign that things may be shifting for them, in their favor. Fred begins treating Lilly very badly before they go ...
Once the father had made this choice the daughters were forced to obey. The romance was seen as a pursuit of love to win the girl. In 10 Things I Hate About You, I chose to deal with the issue in The Taming of the Shrew in a similar fashion but with one significant difference. Marriage is the focal point in the play "not to bestow my youngest daughter before I have a husband for the elder".
Norrie Epstein has a dissimilar portrayal of the play related to Kermode’s. Epstein perceives this play as a “brilliant and dazzling romantic comedy”. She cogitates Beatrice to be one of Shakespeare’s “most loquacious and engaging heroines.” During the course of the play Benedick and Beatrice are frequently rude to one another when it is understandable that they are perfect for each other. Stated in not merely in Epstein’s analysis but as well as numerous scholars, in the Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare articulates the belief that individuals “love deepest” are frequently the ones most secured from it. Beatrice and Benedick absolutely encounter the necessities for that classification of hiding covering their sentiments.
Examine the different ways in which Shakespeare presents the attitude towards marriage in the play, ‘The Taming of the Shrew.’
through out the play has played a big part with Bianca as now we see
There are many similarities and differences between each of the characters. For example, in the film Kat (Katharina) used to be popular and kind, but ever since she slept with Joey because “He said everyone was doing it,” she decided she would “never do anything just because ‘everyone else’ was doing it.” In the play, however, she had been unkind, unpopular and smart-mouthed her entire life. Another similarity between the two versions of the character is her age. Bianca portrays a very similar character in both the film and the play. She is a smart, pretty, popular and kind girl who is frustrated with her older sister, constantly venting out that frustration by saying things like “I think you're a freak. I think you do this to torture me. And I think you suck,” to Kat. Another similarity between Kat and Bianca’s characters is their age. Kat was 17 in the play, and Bianca was 16, (in the era in which the play was written, girls got married at a young age). In the film, Cameron represents Lucentio. He is very similar to Lucentio, disguising himself as a tutor in order to gain access to Bianca. Joey, the other boy who likes Bianca, represents both Gremio and Hortensio. However there are a few differences between these characters, such as the fact that Joey is a popular high school student in the film, however in the play Gremio is an older man and Hortensio disguises himself as a musician to gain access to Bianca, and Joey
The story is about two sisters Katherine and Bianca. Bianca has a suitor who would like to marry her, Lucentio, but the only way that he will be able to marry her is if her older sister is married first. When Petruccio arrives to Padua he agrees to court and marry Katherine because she will provide a lovely dowry. Rumor has it that Katherine is a cynical, unruly, and extremely unpleasant female. Bianca on the other hand is the typical image of a lovely woman, beautiful, soft-spoken, and very feminine.
This results in Luke and Cameron creating a plan to get Patrick Verona, who is known as Kat’s equal, to attempt and date Kat. When Petruchio arrives in Padua and visits Hortensio he states he is looking for a wife, Hortensio mentions Katerina and her father’s wealth and immediately Petruchio wants to meet Katerina’s father to talk about the dowry and wedding. In this scene Petruchio says, “I come to live wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua” (Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 2 Lines 72-73), which shows Petruchio only wants the money and doesn’t care as much for true love. In 10 Things I Hate About You, Patrick is offered money to date Kat, in which he accepts the deal.
The common thread of jealousy ties together the main plots in Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and The Winter's Tale. In each of these plays, the main conflict is centered around some form of jealousy. While jealousy is the mutual, most prominent cause for turmoil in these plays, its effects on the characters, and ultimately the plots, is different in each case. This difference has much to do with the way in which the concept of jealousy is woven into each play, and what it is intended to accomplish.
middle of paper ... ..., suggests that Shakespeare’s exploration of the theme of love is to bring us closer to the nature of the reconciliation harmony which it embodies. This is because everyone is peacefully engaging with each other and enjoying the play, since the conflict has been resolved. Not only this, but different social classes emerge together. This is paralleled with, the relationship between Titaina and Oberon. Shakespeare explores the theme of love by the tensions built up to create comic resolutions, therefore helping to diffuse possibly unpleasant impact of themes.
In the play, Lucentio wants to marry Bianca and pretends to be her tutor so he can spend more time with her. He pays Petruchio to wed Bianca’s sister, Kate, so he can marry Bianca. Cameron acts as Bianca’s French tutor to gain more face time with her. He convinces Joey Donner to pay Patrick to date Kat. Patrick is nice to Kat throughout the movie and tries to win her back after she finds out that he was paid to go out with her.
Katherine reveals this attitude in Act 2 Scene 1, lines 31-35, "nay, now I see she is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance barefoot on my wedding day, and for your love for her, lead the apes to hell." Talk not to me, I will sit and weep!.. " This anger is not concealed, it serves to provide motivation as to why a rational person would rebuke Petrucchio so rudely upon first encountering him. Katherine surely realizes that Petruchio is interested in her for ulterior motives other than love. Be it purse that the dowry will bring or the actions of an insincere lunatic who, "woo's a thousand.
Bianca pretty much stayed the same and was mostly just used to making matters worse, but once she was not needed they could care less about what happened to her. Emilia changed the most because she had the most courage in the end. For example, Emilia ended up finally confronting Iago on his horrific plan and telling Othello in the process. Which basically ruined Iago’s entire plan. Sadly, the confrontation ended with her being killed by Iago for ruining his plan.
These conflicts stem from the society around the couple, as well as from the couple themselves as they too are part of this society, but with very different backgrounds: The female protagonist is the daughter of a highly-respected Venetian senator: Brabantio. Othello--also known as the Moor--is a foreigner, black in color, has a past
The play, Othello is one of the most famous tragedies composed by William Shakespeare during the Renaissance period. It powerfully portrays a world where the acts of evil ultimately vanquishes fidelity, nobility and integrity. The central themes jealousy and manipulation embodies the foretold tragedies and the downfall tragedies of the characters due to one’s insecurities. Through the use of literary techniques and figurative language, Shakespeare has effectively explored the themes of jealousy and manipulation.