10 Things I Hate About You And Taming Of The Shrew

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Between the movie 10 Things I Hate About You and the play Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio and Patrick are motivated for different things. Petruchio in the book is a self centered jerk who wants to hook up and make money. In the movie Patrick is a guy that everyone is scared of but he’s still a caring person. I believe that Petruchio in both is someone that has a carefree attitude and developed feelings that he thought wouldn't be possible by the end of the story. The movie 10 things I hate about you start off with grumio paying patrick to take out katherine so he can take out biannca but once patrick realises how much of a catch she is he starts to develop feeling for her.The play taming of the shrew starts off with a shrew named katherine she is a rude and disobedient and she is wanted only for money not how others feel about her.
Petruchio comes to town looking to hookup for money and finds out about Katherine and confess his “love” but really it is a disguise to get her money, have sex, and him to prove that he is able to tame any shrew. What, with my tongue in your tail? It shows him that he is a pervert and wants her for just sex but he shows later that even if she doesn’t he is okay because he still gets her money.
But in the movie as Patrick he is the rebel kid that everyone's scared of. He then gets paid to try and take kate out to a movie. But he eventually figure out how much of a catch she actually is and he starts to develop feelings for her. He shows how he cares about her when he says You’re just too good to be true. Can’t take my eyes off of you. This shows how sweet patrick is too Kate in the movie instead of just being a douche to her in the book. When she finds out he got paid to take out her who he thinks is great after she and himself warm up to each other. She finds out about the money but he never used till he bought her a guitar to help win her back and he tells her about how he didn't spend the money because he actually wanted to take her out. Petruchio in the book only wants to be with katherine to tame/ get all of her money Patrick gets paid to get with her then actually start to develop feeling for her by the end of it Katherine is a shrew that doesn't want to get with anyone and isn't obedient. In the movie she was tamed but after her mother died and she had sex with joey she declared/promised herself that
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Petruchio and Patrick are motivated for different things. Petruchio in the book is a self centered jerk who wants to hook up and make money. In the movie Patrick is a guy that everyone is scared of but he’s still a caring person. I believe that Petruchio in both is someone that has a carefree attitude and developed feelings that he thought wouldn't be possible by the end of the story. This story ends differently because of the cultural societal expectations that their expected to have and want and what they are actually motivated to do like marry for money and take her out but it's more involved into the money making

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