The Power of Love in 10 Things I Hate About You and Taming of the Shrew

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The Power of Love in 10 Things I Hate About You and Taming of the Shrew 'The Power of Love' is portrayed in various themes throughout both.

Some of which depict superficial love, motivation by money and

love-at-first-sight. These ideas can be contrasted and compared

between the 1500 Elizabethan time of Shakespeare's play 'The Taming of

the Shrew' and the present contemporary period of teenage movie '10

Thing I Hate About You'.

The motif of motivation by money in love is a frequently suggested

theme in both texts: - 'Taming of the Shrew' and '10 Things I Hate

About You'. In 'The Taming of the Shrew' Petruchio is motivated by

dowry money that he would receive if he married the shrewd and

foul-tongued Katherina.

Petruchio:'I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; if wealthily then

happily in Padua.'

Petruchio explains that the only way to a happy lifestyle is to marry

a wealthy wife in Padua. His theory is that money will make him happy,

although in contemporary society that hypothesis has been challenged.

Gremio: 'You shall have me assisting you in all. But will you woo[1]

this wildcat?' Petruchio: Will I live?...Think you a little din can

daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not

heard the sea, puffed up with winds…and heavens artillery thunder in

the skies?...And you do tell me of a woman's tongue, that gives not

half so great a blow to heard.'

Petruchio boasts taming Katherina will not be difficult as he has

experienced far worse in his life than just the scolding tongue of a

woman. He highlights that he is fearless in his chase for Ka...

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...ontribute to his thoughts and feelings about her. When

the camera is shot at her she is depicted walking slowly and sweetly,

like and angel, while Cameron watches on in amazement. Similar to 'The

Taming of the Shrew' Bianca also falls in love with Cameron and they

attend the Prom together, which is the contemporary equivalent to the

wedding of Lucentio and Bianca in 'The Taming of the Shrew'

All of the themes, 'motivation by money', 'superficial love' and 'love

at first sight' are depicted strongly in both texts, the 1500

Elizabethan period of 'The Taming of the Shrew' and the modern

contemporary time of '10 Things I Hate About You'. All these themes

can be used to portray 'The Power of Love' and highlights the changes

and continuities that have occurred over time.

[1] Try to win a woman's hand in marriage; court

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