Compare and Contrast gender role in 2 Texts

Task:
Analysis the theme of gender in Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You. Compare and contrast the gender conventions and the relationship between men and women.

 

Teacher said she want the writing use more advanced wordings and in depth analysis with quotes from the texts for analyzing. She doesn’t accept in simple wording. Please find me an expert in literature writings, thanks.

My note is just for references, writer can express his own analysis. I have attached page of quotes from the texts which will be embedded into the essay.

Book title: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

 

Male-dominated / male protagonist / patriarchal society

 

Baptista “That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter / Before I have a husband for the elder… / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.”(1.1.50-54)

 

Petruchio “Thou must be married to no man but me, / For I am he am born to tame you, Kate, / And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate / Conformable as other household Kates.” (2.1.265-268)

 

Katherine “No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forced / To give my hand, opposed against my heart.” (3.2.8-9)

 

Petruchio “But as for my bonny Kate, she must with me… I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, / My household stuff, my field, my barn, / My horse, my ox…” (3.2.200-205).

 

Petruchio “This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, / And thus I’ll curb her mad and headstrong humour.” (4.1.179-180)

 

Katherine “The more my wrong, the more his spite appears. / What, did he marry me to famish me?” (4.3.2-3)

 

Petruchio “The poorest service is repaid with thanks, / And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.” (4.3.45-46)

 

Katherine “I thank you, sir.” (4.3.47)

 

Petruchio “I will win my wager better yet, / And show more sign of her obedience, / Her new-built virtue and obedience.” (5.2.125-127)

 

Petruchio “I won the wager, though you hit the white, / And, being a winner, God give you good night!” (5.2.194-195)

 

Money for Love

 

Petruchio “One rich enough to be Petruchio’s wife / As wealth is burden of my wooing dance …/ As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd …/ I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua.” (1.2.53-56)

 

Petruchio “Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented / That you shall be my wife, your dowry ‘greed on, / And will you, nill you, I will marry you.” (2.1.261-263)

 

Baptista “’Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both / That can assure my daughter greatest dower / Shall have my Bianca’s love.” (2.1.333-335)

 

Tranio “my father hath no less / Then three great argosies, beside two galleasses, / And twelve tight galleys. These I will assure her, / And twice as much whate’er thou offer’st next.” (2.1.369-373)

Baptista “I must confess your offer is the best,…/ She is your own’ else, you must pardon me. / If you should die before him, where’s her drower?” (2.1.379-382)

 

Role of women in the society

 

Lucentio “Maid’s mild behaviour and sobriety.” (1.1.70-1)

 

Bianca “What you will command me will I do, / So well I know my duty to my elders.” (2.1.6-7)

 

Katherine “I see a woman may be made a fool / if she had not a spirit to resist.” (3.2.218-219)

 

Katherine “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,…But love, fair looks and true obedience – / Too little payment for so great a debt.” (5.2.155-160-164)

 

Book title: 10 Things I Hate About You directed by Gil Junger

 

Male-dominated / male protagonist / patriarchal society

 

Michael “Incredible uptight father, and it’s a widely known fact that the Stratford sisters aren’t allowed to date.”

 

Walter “no. It’s always no. What are the house rules? #1: no dating till you graduate. #2: no dating till you graduate. That’s it.”

 

Kat “The oppressive patriarchal values that dictate our education.”

 

Kat “Stop making my decisions for me … I want you to trust me to make my own choices. And I want you to stop trying to control my life just because you can’ to control yours.”

 

Walter “You know, fathers don’t like to admit it when their daughters are capable of running their own lives… And when you go to Sarah Lawrence, I won’t even be able to watch the game.”

 

Patrick “I say, do what you wanna do.”

 

Patrick “I know, I quit. Apparently they’re bad for you.”

 

Patrick “Joey is not half the man you are. Secondly, don’t let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Go for it.”

 

Money for Love

 

Michael “Everything but the beak and the feet. Clearly he’s a solid investment.”

 

Patrick “A hundred bucks a date. In advance.”

 

Kat “You were paid to take me out! By the one person I truly hate. I knew this was a set-up!”

 

Patrick “I didn’t care about the money, okay? I cared … I cared about you.”

 

Patrick “paid me to take out a really great girl… I screwed up…I fell for her.”

 

Role of women in the society

 

Kat “Why should I live up to other people’s expectation instead of my own.”

 

Kat “You forget I don’t care what other people think”.

 

Kat “You don’t always have to be what other people want you to be.”

 

Kat “…but mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you, not even close, not even a little, no even at all.”

 

Cameron “Just because you’re beautiful doesn’t mean you can treat people like they don’t matter.”

 

Chastity “I know you didn’t think you were the only sophomore at the prom? Joey just picked me up.”

 

Bibliography:

 

Junger, G. et al. (1999). 10 Things I Hate About You.

Shakespeare, W., (1996). The Taming of the Shrew (Oxford School Shakespeare), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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