At first glance, The Taming of the Shrew might seem like an exception, as Katherine is presented at the outset to be extremely cross, always arguing with everyone. ... Sharp-tongued, ill-mannered, and foul-tempered, Katherine is known throughout Padua as the shrew of the town. ... Petruchio uses this deprivation as a mechanism for taming her, or forcing her into submission. ... The film 10 Things I Hate About You is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. ... The film 10 Things I Hate About You provides the audience with a much less damaging view of women than d...

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The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era with adaptations into popular films such as ëten things I hate about you. ... The "taming" of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. ... The women in the taming of the shrew provide a clear insight into the role of women in Shakespearian society. ... The question one has to ask, is was Katherina ever a shrew, did she behave as such to manipulate her situation, or has she really been tamed? ... Katherine rebels ag...

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In The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare uses a variety of different ways to put across to the reader or audience his views on marriage and relationships. ... He spends the vast majority of the play trying to "tame" Katherina, changing her into a more stereotypical woman. ... This means that two like personalities will cancel each other out, and, in this case, he will "tame" Katherina. ...

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