"10 Things I Hate About You" is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-film, directed by Gil Junger. The film is based on William Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ but is fit to appeal modern day teenage audience. "The Taming of the Shrew" is one of Shakespeare most controversial plays, but in many ways, the values represented in the text are still prevalent today. In ’10 Things I Hate About You’, a good amount of these values and themes had to be altered, while many of them stayed the same. The film maintained the basic plot of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’; i.e. a father with two daughters puts forward a rule that for younger Bianca to marry/date, her elder sister Kate/Kat must go through it first. In Shakespeare’s work, he chose marriage to be the main issue in his play while in ’10 Thing I Hate About You’, the issue revolves around dating and going to the school prom. This illustrates how relationships have changed through time with the introduction of dating and break-ups or better defined as ‘temporary relationships’. Even though ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ may seem to be a dated concept after 400 years since it was written, the plot is still very much entertaining and unique for its genre. However, even though ’10 Things I hate About You’ is said to be modern version, it has become something of the last decade. There are quite a lot of differences between the play and the film. They portray different views of women and feminism. The play is more sexist in its approach and looks down upon women. The characters in the play expect women of their time to be submissive and obedient to their male partners while in the film, the women (especially Kat) are powerful and are not restrained by social roles created by society. Kate had to be tamed and taught to be obedient by Petruchio through harsh treatments like not providing her food and depriving her of sleep to keep her under his control. Through her c