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The Role of Women as Depicted in the Play, The Taming of the Shrew and the Movie, Ten Things I Hate About You
The role of women in society in the play, The Taming of The Shrew, and the film 10 Things I Hate About You, changes in different ways. The role of women in The Taming of The Shrew is for a wife to be an obedient servant to a husband. Women in 10 Things I Hate About You however, teenage girls are shown having a free spirit and will to do whatever they want.
The Taming of the Shrew shows that women are meant to serve their husbands like slaves. In Katherine’s speech and the end of the play she states, “Place your hands below your husband’s foot.” She means that a wife should be ready at all times to serve her husband. A wife should be obedient to please her husband in every way. In her speech it also says, “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, and for thy maintenance commits his body to painful labor both by sea and land.” A husband is compared to a lord to show how high of a stature a husband should receive. Husbands are also compared to the wife’s head which is the most important part of the body and carries the brain.
There is a different perspective in 10 Things I Hate About You, which is sibling rivalry. Kat was a rebellious teen who wants to be different than the typical teenager and Bianca is the favorite of the two daughters. There is a strained relationship . . . read more.
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