Thursday, January 5, 2012

Ten things I hate about you against Taming of the Shrew

In the movie "Ten things I hate about you" it captures the main focus in the play "Taming of the Shrew." The characters are basically the same in most ways, Patrick playing as Petruchio who is also quite a shrew is portrayed as a bad boy,criminal,statistic not nice what so ever. Patrick is drawn into persuing Katherine "Kat" by Joey who offers him money to date Kat so Joey can date her younger sister Bianca. Throughout the movie "Ten things I hate about you" Patrick goes through a significant change in his morals because at first he was just about getting the money and ditching Kat, to start being interested in her. For example in the movie, Patrick grabs the intercom while Kat is at soccer practice and sings to her before he got to know Kat he would have never attempted a stunt like that to show a girl he cares for her. In the play "Taming of the Shrew" Petruchio is acting like a class-A jerk to Kate when they first meet but inside he really is starting to fall in love with her to show he was acting like a jerk the play concludes "Petruchio is coming in a new hat and on old jerkin, a pair of old breaches thrice turned a pair of boots that have been candle cases one buckled, another laced." this is an outrage to Baptista but its helping tame Kate for Petruchio. And near the end of the play Petruchio himself is being tamed in a way, because he was acting all lovey dovey at the end instead of avoiding her contact completely for example "There thats my girl! Come on and kiss me, Kate." after Katherina's elongated speach about how a wife should act towards her husband. Good luck Aaron.

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