For years famous novels have been turned into movies and there was always the debate on whether or not the movie did the book justice. Often times than not the movies are successful, depending on the novel being retold.“10 Things I Hate About You” is an adaptation of one of many famous plays by William Shakespeare, “The Taming of The Shrew”. Both plays are comedies and represent women differently. In “10 Things I Hate About You” the females are more outspoken and have a voice that is somewhat heard, which is demonstrated in Kat’s character. Whereas in “The Taming of The Shrew” women are to obey their husbands and be submissive, seen in Petruchio and Katherine’s character.
Though the plays generate the same concept there are transparent differences between both works. Katherine, the eldest in her small family of three lives in Padua and is widely reputed in the area as being ill-tempered and ill-mannered. Kat is a teenager in high school who often acts out toward her classmates, and teachers, and has achieved a reputation for her acts. “The Taming of The Shrew” is more dramatic than “10 Things I Hate About You”, their responses to finding out they had been set up differ. While one starves herself while the other writes a poem about the things she hates and loves.
In this time and day, it is not socially acceptable to treat women as less than men, which is the reason we did not see so much of the hostile tone in the modern movie “10 Things I Hate About You”. “The Taming of The Shrew” exposes the idea that women are property and must be obedient to their suitors. Katherine must learn to be a good wife, as by tradition, in order for her sister Biana to get married. “10 Things I Hate About You” demonstrates the same point in modern time, the idea of a girl acting in a proper manner. In both works, the families are well off and the single father favors the younger sister over the elder. In both cases, the older sisters are unfavoured in their communities, Katherine with her suitors and Kat with her peers at school. In the film Cameron gets close to Bianca while attempting to teach her French, this functions as a minor allusion to the play, in which Lucentio switches places with his servant, Tranio, in order to enter Baptista’s house and grow closer to Bianca.
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In the end of Taming of the shrew, Petruccio proves to the other gentlemen, in the scene where he is sitting with them, he calls Katherine forth, and the other wives are also called, yet only Katherine appears, as an obedient wife. Petruchio does this to show that he got her wrapped around his finger, the beast has been tamed and he is proud to be the tamer. This scene contrasts to “10 Things I Hate About You”, in the end when Patrick and Kat are sitting in her car, when she discovers the guitar, he kisses her, trying to make up for what he has done.
In conclusion, the two texts contrast to eachother highly, with similarities and differences, but only enough to be similar to eachother. The characters, as mainly referred to in this speech, have the most similarities and differences, though relate to eachother better than most adaptations would.
