Taming Of The Shrew Comparison Essay
After reading the Taming of the Shrew and watching Ten Things I Hate About You. I have realized that their are many similarities and differences between the play and the movie. I will be going into detail about these similarities and differences later in my paper. I will also be explaining a more in depth description of the major characters. Also if you have not read the Taming of the Shrew or watched Ten Thing I Hate About You, I would highly recommend it.
I’m going to start off by telling you about the differences between the play and the movie. First of all in the play the setting, takes place in Padua, now you may be curious to where this is. Padua is known as a countryside nearby the town of Verona. Now in the movie the setting took place …show more content…
Now you may remember the first difference I talked about, which was the different settings between the play and the movie. Now even though that's a difference a similarity can also come out of this. The village in the play where everything took place was Padua. In the movie the high school the students attend was named Padua high school. Another similarity is the gender of all the characters generally stayed the same between the play and the movie, this helped make the comparing less confusing and more understandable. One huge similarity is the plot in both the play and the movie generally stays the same except for minor differences. The character personalities are generally the same also. Along with Kat and Bianca are sisters in the play and the movie. One thing which is kind of a similarity is Baptisa, also known as Walter wants his eldest daughter to date and get married first. In both the play and movie at the beginning Patrick, also known as Petruchio doesn’t seem to have any interest in Kat while he later ends up falling in love with her. At first Patrick was just going in for the money that he was receiving a bet, which he later regretted since Kat had to find out through Joey at prom. But it really did all pay off in the end. In the movie Kat is more verbally mean than anything, while in the play Kate in more physically mean and abusive, considering when she wants something and didn’t get she would physically harm to get what
I’m going to start off by telling you about the differences between the play and the movie. First of all in the play the setting, takes place in Padua, now you may be curious to where this is. Padua is known as a countryside nearby the town of Verona. Now in the movie the setting took place …show more content…
Now you may remember the first difference I talked about, which was the different settings between the play and the movie. Now even though that's a difference a similarity can also come out of this. The village in the play where everything took place was Padua. In the movie the high school the students attend was named Padua high school. Another similarity is the gender of all the characters generally stayed the same between the play and the movie, this helped make the comparing less confusing and more understandable. One huge similarity is the plot in both the play and the movie generally stays the same except for minor differences. The character personalities are generally the same also. Along with Kat and Bianca are sisters in the play and the movie. One thing which is kind of a similarity is Baptisa, also known as Walter wants his eldest daughter to date and get married first. In both the play and movie at the beginning Patrick, also known as Petruchio doesn’t seem to have any interest in Kat while he later ends up falling in love with her. At first Patrick was just going in for the money that he was receiving a bet, which he later regretted since Kat had to find out through Joey at prom. But it really did all pay off in the end. In the movie Kat is more verbally mean than anything, while in the play Kate in more physically mean and abusive, considering when she wants something and didn’t get she would physically harm to get what