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loveadreamer 's review for:
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
rip katherina, you would’ve loved the tortured poets department.
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i’m currently working my way through shakespeare’s plays (don’t hold me to it)… and i’ve been doing well at getting through them quite quickly at the moment (again, don’t hold me to it). today’s choice was the taming of the shrew, aka 10 things i hate about you.
to sum it up quickly, 10 things i hate about you really did it better. they worked their magic and did a exceptional job of making it enjoyable. making it the comedy it was intended to be. shakespeare’s, well- it just didn’t live up to my expectations i preconceived based on a movie adaptation. i was expecting something more fun and light-hearted (comedy !) something i wouldn’t be sitting around spending too much time writing at thought piece about. many will say that this aged badly. i say that this is still a realistic portrayal of what is [sadly] expected of a woman in a modern day society, and some of you are just not ready to talk about it. unless you’re getting married and having children by a certain age, you will, in majority, be negatively spoken of for not being “normal”… for not following the unreasonable societal ideals. forever and always expected to conform to this idea of societal standards eventually. of course, progress has been made upon this… but it’s really sad that this can still be considered at least a partial-expectation after more than four-hundred years.
katherina is a human, and deserves so much better. she is just a woman who doesn’t abide by the “normal”, and it’s tragic to see her become an emotionally drained version of herself within this comedic lens in the name of enemies to lovers. she may be this horrible person but that doesn’t signify abuse. she doesn’t want any man, she doesn’t need one. she’s successful in her own mindset but was tamed because it’s what was seen as acceptable to even her own father. tortured into nothing but a shell of who she used to be… and it’s supposed to be funny? it’s heart shattering. satire? debatable, if so- it’s poorly portrayed. but that still doesn’t erase how i felt about many of the things that happened. i guess i’m supposed to laugh it off because it was just so very funny.
in the sense that this is a satire- to feed into the comedic aspect of the play, it only deepens my thoughts into this whirlwind of curiosity. it doesn’t excuse the abuse into this ‘ha-ha, that happened’ type of a moment. nobody deserves that. it doesn’t resolve the pain because of the awareness i have that this can be a reality to some extent. shakespeare should really consider rebranding this as the tragedy it is.
i would say that this is considered a red flag of a book, story-wise, if you take it at face value… but i can definitely find it as an interesting thing to study on a more deeply-rooted level.
it’s truly just another example of why men, nevertheless, suck. food for thought [daughter].
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
my spotify playlist i made, inspired by this play, is linked below (account linked in bio).
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jZGhyETq7msllarFc3qof?si=hPSFD_OHSQipH-TIh7coPw&pi=u-CyFG0x6ZQFG7
❀⋆
i’m currently working my way through shakespeare’s plays (don’t hold me to it)… and i’ve been doing well at getting through them quite quickly at the moment (again, don’t hold me to it). today’s choice was the taming of the shrew, aka 10 things i hate about you.
to sum it up quickly, 10 things i hate about you really did it better. they worked their magic and did a exceptional job of making it enjoyable. making it the comedy it was intended to be. shakespeare’s, well- it just didn’t live up to my expectations i preconceived based on a movie adaptation. i was expecting something more fun and light-hearted (comedy !) something i wouldn’t be sitting around spending too much time writing at thought piece about. many will say that this aged badly. i say that this is still a realistic portrayal of what is [sadly] expected of a woman in a modern day society, and some of you are just not ready to talk about it. unless you’re getting married and having children by a certain age, you will, in majority, be negatively spoken of for not being “normal”… for not following the unreasonable societal ideals. forever and always expected to conform to this idea of societal standards eventually. of course, progress has been made upon this… but it’s really sad that this can still be considered at least a partial-expectation after more than four-hundred years.
katherina is a human, and deserves so much better. she is just a woman who doesn’t abide by the “normal”, and it’s tragic to see her become an emotionally drained version of herself within this comedic lens in the name of enemies to lovers. she may be this horrible person but that doesn’t signify abuse. she doesn’t want any man, she doesn’t need one. she’s successful in her own mindset but was tamed because it’s what was seen as acceptable to even her own father. tortured into nothing but a shell of who she used to be… and it’s supposed to be funny? it’s heart shattering. satire? debatable, if so- it’s poorly portrayed. but that still doesn’t erase how i felt about many of the things that happened. i guess i’m supposed to laugh it off because it was just so very funny.
in the sense that this is a satire- to feed into the comedic aspect of the play, it only deepens my thoughts into this whirlwind of curiosity. it doesn’t excuse the abuse into this ‘ha-ha, that happened’ type of a moment. nobody deserves that. it doesn’t resolve the pain because of the awareness i have that this can be a reality to some extent. shakespeare should really consider rebranding this as the tragedy it is.
i would say that this is considered a red flag of a book, story-wise, if you take it at face value… but i can definitely find it as an interesting thing to study on a more deeply-rooted level.
it’s truly just another example of why men, nevertheless, suck. food for thought [daughter].
°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
my spotify playlist i made, inspired by this play, is linked below (account linked in bio).
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jZGhyETq7msllarFc3qof?si=hPSFD_OHSQipH-TIh7coPw&pi=u-CyFG0x6ZQFG7