In comparing your two texts you will have become aware of how the contexts of the texts have shaped their form and meaning, of more interest perhaps, is a comparison of the values associated with each text.• How the place / time period / social (rich or poor,

educated or uneducated, social class / clothing / occupation / language of

• the composers / texts of Taming of the Shrew and 10 things I hate about you have created their text-type (play vs film)–

• as well as affecting the composer’s choice of language, dramatic and film techniques

• to show similar ideas / attitudes / values associated with each text.

You will analyse the language forms and features –and the film techniques – of each text to find the ideas which are “similar” and the ideas that are “different” – between the 2 texts and the 2 contexts

  Ideas:

o The characterisation of both Katerina and Petruchio/ Kat and Patrick

o The power of money to motivate deceitful actionso Sibling rivalry between sisterso Competitive nature of meno Men’s expectations that women should “obey” themo The assumption that women must be “well-behaved” / sweet /

mild / agreeableo Any other issues you feel are relevant to answering the

question  How close things are to each other / how distant things are to each-other /

connectedness / similarities / differences /

place / time period / social (rich or poor, educated or uneducated, social class / clothing /

occupation / language style

 

Write your thesis statement:• How the place / time period / social (rich or poor, educated or uneducated,

social class / clothing / occupation / language of • the composers / texts of Taming of the Shrew and 10 things I hate about you

have created their text-type (play vs film)– • as well as affecting the composer’s choice of language, dramatic and film

techniques • to show similar ideas / attitudes / values associated with each text.

The different contexts of Shakespeare’s 1590 play The Taming of the Shrew and Gunger’s 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You have affected both the textual form and the ideas shown in each text.

In comparing your two texts you will have become aware of how the contexts of the texts have shaped their form and meaning, of more interest perhaps, is a comparison of the values associated with each text.

Analysis for Essay:

Idea: The assumption that women must be “well-behaved” / sweet / mild / agreeable

Scene/evidence: act 1 sc 1 – Shrew “Is it your will to make me a stale of me amongst your mates?” Kat

“No mates for you, Unless you were of gentler, milder mould” Hortensio

Techniques: assonance / metaphor (stale/whore) / rhetorical question / pun and repetition (mates) / conditional (unless) / emotive language / alliteration

Effect: shows that, in the time and place of Elizabethan society, women were not attractive if they were not gentle and mild.

Scene: The opening scene – 10 things…

Techniques

Effect

Link to Thesis Statement

Analysis for Essay:

Idea: Sibling rivalry between sisters

Scene: The 2nd scene – Shrew….

Techniques:

Effect:

Scene: The scene where Kat and Bianca argue about dating with their Dad – 10 things…

Techniques

Effect

Link to Thesis Statement

Analysis for Essay:

Idea: The power of money to motivate deceitful actionsScene: The 2nd scene – Shrew….

Techniques:

Effect:

Scene: The scene where Kat and Bianca argue about dating with their Dad – 10 things…

Techniques

Effect

Link to Thesis Statement