Taming Of The Shrew Comparison

With any comparison between a play and its movie counterpart there are bound to be major differences and key similarities between

The next topic which is going to be talked about are the characters. In the movie and the play the characters are mostly the same but have a few differences. Some similarities between the play and the movie are Katerina’s personality and Bianca’s personality. In the movie and the play Katerina isn’t as popular or pretty as her sister Bianca. Katerina is also quite rude and stubborn but her sister on the other hand isn’t. Bianca is very kind and beautiful, she is also very popular. There are a few differences between the characters such as Patrick, Petruchio Baptista and Walter Bianca and Katerina’s dad. Patrick is really nice to Katerina and buys her a guitar because she found out about him being payed to date her. When he gives her the guitar she says “You can’t just buy be a guitar every time you mess up, you know” and he reply’s with “I know, but there’s still drums, a bass and maybe even a tambourine”. This shows how much he cares about her at the end of the movie. Petruchio isn’t that nice to her though because After Petruchio and Katerina get married, Petruchio forces Katerina to move away from Padua and teaches her how to be a wife by abusing her. This tells you that Patrick and Petruchio have completely different personalities. Baptista and Walter are very different because Baptista is extremely rich and Walter isn’t rich at all.

In both the movie and the play the characters are pretty much the same. First, there is Kate. She has a fiery temper and she is shrewish. Next, there is Petrucio. He is adventurous and he is paid to date Kate. Then there are all of the other guys that want to date Kate’s younger sister. Her name is Bianca. Bianca is beautiful and sweet. She cannot date until Kate does and that creates a big mess for Bianca.

William Shakespeare creates true-to-life character depictions in his plays. Because of this the depiction of the sibling relationship between Katherine and Bianca is very relatable to an audience. Sibling rivalry is a very apparent circumstance that can happen to almost any pair of siblings. The sibling rivalry that occurs between Katherine and Bianca is very evident throughout TS. In this case of sibling rivalry, Bianca seems to be the apple of her father’s eye, while on the other hand Kate is not look upon at all. It can be argued because of this lack of attention Kate has developed her unattractive personality.

“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?

Between the film and the play, there are several character differences, in general and with Peter. During the play, the characters are all very exaggerated. For example, Mrs. Frank is always passive and modest with the exception of her outburst directed toward the Van Daan’s. Anne is always chiper, like when she wasn’t that upset when the Nazis and throughout about fresh air instead. Though, in the film, they all had ups and downs, mood wise, and yes, they were also exaggerate in the movie, it just wasn’t as obvious or over the top. An example being Mr. Van Daan frequently hitting and looking down on Peter in almost every scene the converse with one another, the dinner, Moochi, etcetera.

Plays tend to reflect the politics and social issues of the time they were written, which can educate people in modern day about philosophy further back than the 17th century. The plot of the play, Macbeth shows how dark and hostile Shakespeare’s writing became after King James took the throne in 1605 (BBC, 2014). The way the play speaks about women can reflect on the way Shakespeare thought of gender roles, and can display how far society has come in four centuries. In the 17th century, women had few rights, and followed orders from men, at the time the world depended on men (Alchin, 2012). Shakespeare wrote about men as superior and strong, yet women were weak, but he almost challenged those roles even in the 17th century

Since “10 Things I Hate About You” is a modern adaptation of “The Taming of the Shrew” the characters share similar personalities and even names. First, they have the same main characters. Kathrine Minola in “The Taming of the Shrew” and Kat Stratford from “10 Things I Hate About You” are both women who are very rude, harsh and are sometimes violent. From their personalities, it is obvious that both are the “shrew” in the play and the movie, which means they are argumentative and ill-tempered. Kat is more verbally abusive while Kathrine is physically abusive. Although they are seen and viewed as “shrews”, Kat is more like an opinionated woman who believes in what she thinks and is not afraid to say it. Petruchio and Patrick Verona, loved which is from the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”, are the suitors for Kat and Kathrine. Although in “10 Things I Hate About You” Kat and Patrick did fall in love but Petruchio and Kathrine did not love each other, their relationship was mostly about the money that was given by Bapista to Petruchio. The difference is also the age. In “10 Things I Hate About You” they are all high-school students while in “The Taming of the Shrew” they are of marrying age. Then there is Lucentio, Cameron in “10 Things I Hate About You”. They both like Bianca, Bianca Minola in “The Taming of the Shrew” which are Kat/Kathrine's sisters. Cameron was not very confident to go to Bianca and talk to her when he first saw her. Lucintio in the other hand was a man with high-self esteem. An example of a quote said by Lucintio about Bianca is “O Tranio, till I found it to be true, I never thought it possible or likely. But see, while idly I stood looking on, I found the effect of love in idleness And now in plainness do confess to thee That art to me as secret and as dear As Anna to the Queen of

Its focus is on gender, class, and same sex attraction which makes it relevant to our current cultural environment. Like Elizabeth I, the play demonstrates that gender is something you can influence by how you act, rather than one’s gender which is determined by predisposed sexual organs.

Many, of the characters were acting like other character, for example Benvolio was acting more like Mercutio by picking the fight with the Capulets.The Prince is a policeman and is tired of the fighting between the two households.Paris was less flirty Juliet in the movie than in the play. Romeo was just stuck on Juliet’s face because of the love felt for her. Juliet was less afraid of killing herself that when the Friar try to stop her, she put the gun on him and told him to find another way for her to be with Romeo.

It was interesting to see not only the differences between the movies and the play, but also the differences between the original movie and the movie based on the play. There were characters and certain side plots and scenes that were taken out of the original film into the play adaptation. However, in the 2002 film, there were very few differences between the film and the play, but it had the same differences with the 1988 film that the play had. One of the main differences between film and play that I noticed was the difference in acting. In the films, actors were much more subdued than in the musical.

For example, when Katarina becomes intoxicated at a party, Patrick takes care of her until she gets better and takes her home. In addition, there is a huge time gap between the movie and the play, which lead to completely different cultures. The play is based of the 1590’s while the movie is based on the late 1990’s almost borderline 2000’s since it was made in 1999. An obvious difference that can be seen is the language that is being used in the play; it is still English but a much older version. The English being used in Shakespeare play is much more formal and less direct than the one in the movie, which has more cursing and openness to topics such as sex.

The women in the play should have the same right as men when it comes to connotation Their character development is not that important and that is because women were not that important and women did not have the right to do certain things. The women's character development contributes to the theme of gender because there is only two women in that whole entire play.

might even say that the movie “a straight film version of Shakespeare” with the same themes such as forgiveness, sorcery, revenge and slavery. However, small changes made in the movie have had huge impacts on the meaning of the play, further exploring the concept gender and challenging the patriarchal

I had been in plays and watched plays, but, I never really could understand what the big deal was, until now. When we watched the play, Much Ado About Nothing, I was not too thrilled, but I wanted to give it a chance. To my surprise, I ended up liking the Shakespeare play. In watching the play I learned a lot about the societal norms that I do not believe I would have picked up through the covers of a history book. For example, when Beatrice says, “ I cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I will die a woman with grieving.” It shows how women were unable to take any action at the time (Branagh, William Shakespeare’s, Much Ado About Nothing). It shook me to see the reality of the mistreated of women of the time period, but it showed me the real progress we have made since then and how much further we can go. I find bigger importance in drama now than I did before this class, and can see the bigger affects it has and can have in the classroom as well as outside of it. Outside of the classroom dramas are used to show audiences the problems in things in a humorous and tragic way. For example, in the play Much Ado About Nothing, the song that plays throughout the story is filled with lyrics that not-so-subtly define the difficulties that women needed to “deal” with at the time. For example, the line “Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never.” This