Morgan+Feldscher

= Two different worlds, yet so much alike =

=The last Song= Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to "The Last Song"

-The Tamming of The shrew is a Shakespeare novel published in 1623 and The Last Song is a movie that was made in 2010. Both these movies relate to "shrew" because Kathrine's always depressed and so is Ronnie. Also Kathrine feels very out of place in the society because she doesn't act like the other girls do. She doesn't want to get married like her sister Bianca does and everything her dad want's her to do that's lady like she doesn't want to. Just like in The Last Song Ronnie feels very uncomfortable living with her dad in the beach town because all of the other girls around there act different than she does. When comparing the movie with the novel you can see the difference in how men's act towards women have changed.

The difference between the play & the movie is how men choose to court women. In the older text men treated women rudely and women chose not to do anything about it. In newer text, however, men are more restricted in how they act. If a man doesn't treat a women in a nice way they will be rejected or left.

=To make her come and I know her keeper's call.= =That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites= =That bate and beat and will not be obedient.= =She ate no meat today, nor none shall eat.= =Last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not.=

(Act IV, scene I, 195-200)
In the quote above Petruchio gives a speech about his plane to tame Katherine. He compares himself to a falcon tamer and compares Kate to a wild bird that must be broken. He talks about depriving her of food and also sleep because he thinks that that's the only way to "tame a shrew". This relates to the thesis because here Petruchio just wants to take charge and be the boss of Katherine, he doesn't care if he's being mean to her or not. This seems to be how a lot of older text was written. Now a days it's written as the man has to be nice for the female to like him, not the opposite.





Veronica "Ronnie" in the last song totally changes her character from beginning to end. When her and her brother move to the Georgia beach town to live with their dad over the summer Ronnie is a very shy, rebellious teenager. When she meets Will, she doesn't think anything of it, besides his good looks because she knows how wealthy & successful he is (as she hears from people around town.) Ronnie thinks that Will would want absolutely nothing to do with her until the one day they bump into each other at the beach. One day when Ronnie is walking on the beach, she see's Will playing beach volleyball and the ball accidentally hits her as her & her drink fall over. From there it was love. From that moment on Will does nothing but try and make Ronnie like him, he treats her like a princess and does everything and anything he can do to make her happy. Ronnie realizes that she was wrong for thinking that just because of how he was raised, and how different the two were from each other they still had a lot in common. This differs from //The Taming of the Shrew// because in that text Petruchio is nothing but rude and controlling to Katherine where in this newer text, Will is nothing but nice to Ronnie. = = = Will Blakelee: "No one's made me feel like you do, Ronnie." =

In conclusion society now a days portrayals the views on dating and courtship much different than it did years ago. In //"The Tamming of the Shrew"// published in 1623 the society shows the difference in gender to be very degrading. Petruchio treats his wife Katherine very bad through out the whole novel. He goes around talking about her in bad ways and how the only way he can "tame" her is if he treats her in these ways. For example of talking about women in a degrading way, he tells Katherine's father that he's going to be sleeping with his daughter tonight but wants a sneak preview so he's going to sleep with her sister Bianca first. The movie //"The Last Song"// shows a very different aspect on how society views the difference between male & female. In the movie Will and Ronnie start to really like each other, but Ronnie realizes that their both two totally different people from two different worlds, until Will proves her wrong. Will goes around the beach town talking not only but great things about Ronnie and how much of an amazing girl she is. He does nothing but try and prove to her and her father that he really truly loves her and has no intention on trying to ever hurt her. All in all, you can see that the way society views men and women is so much better than it was portrayed years ago. The Last Song