Similarities Between Taming Of The Shrew And 10 Things I Hate About You

These works of drama and film have many similarities and differences. To compare them, we have to think about the different time background and different society situations of each. In the original Shakespearean comedy, the main setting place is 1590s Padua, a city in Italy. In the movie, it is late 1990s American at a high school named “Padua High School.” In consideration of ages and identification, there are some dissimilar details between the two versions. For example, the main topic from the beginning to the end in Shakespeare’s play is about marriage, while the main topic of the movie is about a romantic relationship in a high school environment. However, although the type of romantic situation is different, essentially the main idea
The basic plots of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You both involve multiple men wanting to be with a nice, beautiful girl named Bianca, but Bianca has a mean, older sister named Katherine that no one wants to be with. In both of the stories, the father of these two girls demands that Bianca not get involved with anyone until Katherine is. For this reason, Petruchio is paid to marry Katherine, and similarly in the modern version, Patrick is paid to go out with Kat. There are minor differences between the plots. For example, Kat and Patrick really love and fall for each other in 10 Things, but Katherine and Petruchio never really truly love each other; their entire relationship is strictly based on the money that Baptista is giving Petruchio, as is made clear when Petruchio tells Katherine, “Your father hath consented That you shall be my wife, your dowry ‘greed on, And will you, will you, I will marry you.” Petruchio states that he is only marrying her because her father has given him money. It is not difficult to see there is no real love between Petruchio and Katherine. In contrast, Patrick and Kat really fall for each other, which is evident when they begin to laugh with each other and really start to like each other. This love is most shown when she sneaks Patrick out of class so that they can take a boat to go paintballing. Further differences are in the father-daughter relationship. In Taming of the Shrew, Baptista says he will not “bestow my youngest daughter Before I have a husband for the elder.” He wants Katherine to wed so he can get rid of her like she is an object. Kat’s father is less heartless. He has a different mind-set towards Kat: he doesn’t necessarily want her to have a boyfriend, but he does want Kat to have one before Bianca does. He clearly states that Bianca is not allowed to do things unless her older sister Kat