Taming Of The Shrew Compare And Contrast Essay

In the book Taming of the Shrew and the movie 10 Things I Hate About You there were many similarities and differences. While they took place in drastically different time periods you can still see there is some commonality. The book took place in Padua, Italy during Shakespeare's time and the movie is from the 1990’s in a high school on the west coast. Both revolve around relationships between the opposite sex and how they deal with each other. The father’s rule in both is that the younger sister is not allowed to date or get married until the older sister has. The main problem is that the older sister is not a nice person.
The first similarity is the character Lucentio or Cameron. They are one in the same and they both fall in love with Bianca at first sight. They become tutors to get closer to her. In the book he is a Latin tutor that dresses up and has to change his name and in the movie he is a French tutor who is just a normal teenager. There is not a big difference between to two besides their name and that one is just wanting to date the girl and the other is wanting to marry her, Both end up being Bianca’s first choice when it comes to dating or marrying at the end. They are the nice guy that gets the girl.
The next comparison is Hortensio in the book and Joey in the movie. They both want
In both the book and the movie it is the nice guy who ends up with Bianca, the nice, younger sister, The same is true for the older sister, Katherine or Kat, who starts out as a shrew but also ends up happy. They both show that there is not a big difference regardless of the time period when it comes to the boy trying to get the girl. Regardless of the time settings, relationships between the opposite sex are timeless and will always be a main theme whether in writing or on the big