Johnathan+Neris

= = = Love Hurts  =

//Comparing "The Taming of the Shrew" to "Why Did I Get Married"//

In the play "The Taming of The Shew" Katherine is a strong independent women, until her soon to be husband Petruchio comes along and begins to break her down to become obedient. In the 2007 movie "Why Did I Get Maried" Mike one of the characters harasses his girlfriend Shalia begins to break her down with different backhanded complements. Back in the Elizabethan days relationships were very open to the public and everyone knew what was going on. And now in the present, relationships are developing there are more things hidden under the table and relationships are more secretive. 'Women can be very strong and independent but they fall for men's traps and become tamed. There are different ways that men tame women, for example in the movie "Why Did I Get Married" the guy complements his wife as he begins to tame her and in the play "The Taming of The Shew" the guy makes a joke out of the women as she begins to give in as she breaks down.

**"When you are gentle, you shall have one too, And not til then"** // (Act 4, Scene 3, Line numbers 75-76) // During this part of the play "Taming of the Shrew" Petruchio and his newly wedded wife Katherine have a little encounter with each other as Petruchio takes Katherine away from her family and friends to move in with him. He tells her things can't work her way she was not following his directions and was being disrespectful. If Katherine wanted to get what she wanted, she would have to give in and follow his demands. As Katherine knew things wouldn't get better she begins to respect listens to her husband, which shows she beginning to become tamed. This is almost as the same situation when the couple Diane and Terry were traveling to their vacation site for the retreat.



**Diane: "Great can you email it to me, yea and I will check it when I get into the house."**

**Terry: "Diane your not checking your emails when you get to the house because where on vacation"**

**Diane: Be quite Terry.**

**Terry: "We've been in this truck for hours and you have been on the phone the whole time, can you please get off and spend time with your husband?"**

**Diane: "You and your control issues."**

As this couple are on they way to the couples retreat they have a little argument. Diane gets a phone call from one of her assistance and begins to hold a conversation as her husband Terry is driving. Terry begins to get annoyed and bothered because that's all Diane ever does nowadays, he's a little jealous of her never having time for him so he starts to argue with making her end the call. He complains to her and tries to make her feel bad by telling her she's not spending enough time with him. She then speaks up once and told brought up his control issues. This relates to the the other quote above from the "Shew" because both men were being very controlling in their own different ways.

= "My hand is ready, may it do him ease." =

//(Act 5, Scene 2, Line numbers 195)//

During this part of the play "The Taming of the Shrew" Petruchio is in a bet with two other men. The bet was to see which one of the men's women would come back when they were called for. The prize was money and other things. As the first two men where not successful when they called their wife's it was Petruchio's turn. As he sent for his wife, not only did Katherine come to where her husband Petruchio was at but she also dragged the other two wife's in with her. She then gave a speech about how they should respect the men more and how they should be more obedient. She said "My hand is ready, may it do him ease." From that quote alone she is saying what ever he commands her to do she will do it because that's the way if suppose to be. In the beginning of the story she was rude to Petruchio and now at the end of the story she is getting on her knees waiting for his next command. This is just like a scene in the movie "Why Did I Get Married" when Sheila finds out she has been cheated on by Mike.



= = = "I have no life without him..." =

In this scene of the movie Sheila finds out mike has been cheating on her with one of her friends. She breaks a glass bottle over his head and leaves the house. When she goes to the mountain top she thinks about all the good times they shared. She thought to her self thinking what did she do. In a scene earlier in the movie she told Mike "I love you, what do we have to do to make this work..?" then she is neglected by Mike as he said "Well you can loose 50 pounds then I might be some what attracted to you." As she cried she said "I have no life without him..." meaning that without Mike she wouldn't be alive. Even though he has put her through so much neglect she still said these words. She shows that she was tamed and was to blind to see she was hurting her self for all the wrong reasons because this relationship was not love.

There were many different parts from the play "The Taming of the Shrew" and the movie "Why Did I Get Married" that could have been compared. As the ones selected got compared they also bought up that nowadays women are still getting fooled easily by the men's traps. If the women doesn't like the men, they find ways to make them fall in love with them. Just like in the two different scenarios both Katherine and Sheila were tamed. At the end of the day Sheila and Mike break up and Sheila finds someone who loves her for her in the movie and Katherine and Petruchio stay together as Katherine becomes more obedient.