Anthony+Torrance

The Taming of The Shrew The Mexican
 * //The Mexitalian Wedding//**

==== //Females in both historic and modern relationships tend to have evolving expectations for men.// //In the taming of the shrew, the expectations of the woman evolves over time as she is "tamed"; Katherine accepts Petruchio because she not only understands her role, but that he is not as bad as she has been making him out to be. In The Mexican, Julia Roberts, or Sam has wants and requirements for her boyfriend, Jerry, that are too high for him, but eventually she began to understand and accept him.// //The woman's disposition towards him changes over the course of time until eventually she is ready to completely accept him.// //In The Mexican, Samantha wants him to do the right thing, so she decides to "punish" him by breaking them up even though they still have feelings for each other in hopes to set him strait. When he doesn't come back to her things backfire, and she realizes he's more of a man than she thought.// //Both statements are true to the story of what's happening in those relationship's.// ====


 * "Quote from Play"**

(Act 2, Scene 1, 210-224)

**PETRUCHIO** What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate. I am a gentleman. **KATHERINE** That I’ll try. //She strikes him// //.// **PETRUCHIO** I swear I’ll cuff you if you strike again. **KATHERINE** So may you lose your arms. If you strike me, you are no gentleman; And if no gentleman, why then no arms. **PETRUCHIO** A herald, Kate? Oh, put me in thy books! **KATHERINE** What is your crest? A coxcomb? **PETRUCHIO** A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen. **KATHERINE** No cock of mine. You crow too like a craven. **PETRUCHIO** Nay, come, Kate, come. You must not look so sour. **KATHERINE** It is my fashion, when I see a crab. **PETRUCHIO** Why, here’s no crab, and therefore look not sour. **KATHERINE** There is, there is.



In this section of her speech, she touches on how an angry woman looks to a man, and how he is her everything. This is an alarming thing to be said from Kate, but it is only said because she now has true love for her man. In other words, she has been tamed.

Much like the wild Samantha from the Mexican, who was never content with her man and his strive to maintain her standards. In the end though, once she realized how much she loevd him and how good of a man he was, she confessed without saying directly, that she accepted him. Both scenes were the last in the movie, which I found interesting, knowing that it took the woman the length of the story to realize their "incompetence". **"Quote from Play"**

(Act 5, Scene 2)

KATHERINE A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labor both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience— <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Too little payment for so great a debt.



//This shows us how in the typical relationship, the woman is always the one who is not only wrong, but the one to realize the error of her ways and confess her love for the man, who was seemingly trying to court her all along.The feeling that comes afterwards in both scenees was a display of their love via kiss as you can obviously see in// The Mexican //and// The Taming of The Shrew//. In both scenes the man accepted her woman, although that might not always happen in real life, but in these cases all the men wanted was the woman's love. The conflict was hat her love was hard to come by. The only difference is that in// The Mexican//, the woman loved him all along, but just couldn't accept it, while in// The Taming of The Shrew//, she didn't love him until shortly before she made her speech. Both are great stories that feature stereotypical, but realistic cases of a woman's perspective being changed by love.//