Newton’s 1st Law of Motion states that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. As an example of this law, take Katherine from Taming of the Shrew, a Shakespearean play about a wild woman who is tamed, and Kat from 10 Things I Hate About you, a movie about a wild girl who finds a reason to be happy again, to describe why human behaviors change. With these two stories, why character and behavior is directly affected by the treatment of other people can be explained. In the beginning of both the play and the movie, Katherine was treated like a shrew and therefore acted like a shrew. “For shame, thou helding of a devilish spirit! Why dost thou wrong her that did ne’er wrong thee?” This is where it becomes clear to Katherine that Baptista favors Bianca over her and tells her father that even his lowest …show more content…
“Such duty as the subject owes the prince, even such a woman oweth to her husband. In the play, Katherine ends up as a tamed woman because her husband tricked her into thinking his fowl treatment was actually what she deserved and she believed it. “But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even any at all.” In her “big speech” of the movie, Kat is exposing her true emotions to her peers and the boy she loves, which is strange behavior for her since she’s been used. But, because Patrick loved her too, she had a change of heart and stopped trying to shut everyone out. When Katherine is met with relentless backlash anytime she tries to stand up for herself or act out, she becomes tamed. But, when she is given love and given the chance to fall in love, she blossoms out of the bitter, closed-off girl she was into a happier and nice version of herself. In these two stories, positive treatment creates a change for the better in Kat and negative treatment causes a change for the