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==** //Hidden Beauties ..// ** == // Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to "Princess Diaries" //

In the play Taming Of the Shrew love is forced upon many of the protagonists. In the play, the two daughters Katherine and Bianca are forces into a marriage arranged by there fathers. Although the love is arranged, by the end of the play Katherine falls for her new husband. In the 2001 movie "The Princess Diaries" the main character Amelia is a small girl, in her high school who is teased daily that finds out she's truthfully the princess of a country across the country. Not accepting the thought at first, towards the end of the movie like Katherine in "Shrew" Amelia, takes hold of her title and lives for it.

Baptista Minola the father of Katherine, and Grandmere the grandmother of Amelia play the same role in Taming of the Shrew and Princess Diaries. Minola's objective of his girls getting married it to ensure that they will be well set for the rest of the life. As wealth being one of the criteria for the man that he decides she will wed with. Grandmere position in Princess Diaries is trying to convince her granddaughter whose she just meeting after 15 years, that she must become the princess of the country of Genovia. The grandmothers reasoning for this is to ensure that no one outside the family will take the thrown. For the love of money and power, your willingness in a situation is never an option. Parental influence in love and the chooses you make in life are more so decided in ways that can benefit themselves, as well as the children.

= = = "I come to wive it wealthily in Pada; If wealthily, then happily in Padua." = (Act I, Scene II, 10) In this quote, Petruchio is announcing why he has come to Padua. He's saying he hasn't come for the love of Katherine but for the wealth that she would bring him. He doens't mind the fact that everyone is saying Katherine is a "Shrew" as long as the marriage brings him money. For him even if she does act as a Shrew, the money would provide him with happiness as they live in Padua.

In Princess Diaries Grandmere doesn't come to meet her long missed granddaughter, but comes to find the only person who can save her country and wealth.



In this scene from "The Princess Diaries," Grandmere is meeting her grandaughter for the first time, and exammining her the first minute. Amelia is being introduced to a lady who she had believed didn't even exists, let along longed to meet her. From her wild her, bushy eyebrows, and messed up posture Grandmere critiqued every aspect of Amelia. She did this not to get closer to her grandaughter, but to see the possible potential in the only one who could rule her country. Like Petrucio, Grandmere didn't come to mingle, she came to prepare Amelia to be able to become Princess so her title, and wealth wouldn't be given to the next family. Petrucio and Grandmere played the same part in these positions, making it seem as if they came for the benefit of others, although they did it for the benfit of themselves.

Like Katherine not wanting to get married, Amelia isn't too fond of the idea of being someones princess. Katherine, is wedded eventually, due to her father. For Amelia, the decision is left up to her until the royal ball is set to happen. Amelia is adamant about her decision in not wanting to taking the thrown. Amelia then receives a gift from her grandmother that contained a letter from her father who had died when she was little. In the letter, her father tells her all the things he expects for her and how he wants her to live up to her full potential.

=**"Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, **= =**Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,** = =**And for thy maintence commits his body** **To painful labor both by sea and land,** **To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,** **Whilst though liest warm at home, secure and safe,** **And craves no other tribute at thy hands** **But love, fair looks, and true obedienc**e-" = (Act 5, Scene 2, 162-169)

In this quote Katherine is professing her love for her husband. She is explaining to the other ladies, how important it is to be obedient, and to respect your husband. From not wanting to get married and being known around the town as the, "Shrew" Katherine now is in love.

Amelia makes the last minute decison that she's going to accept the thrown.



="But, then I wondered how I'd feel after abdicating my role as Princess of Genovia. Would I feel relieved? Or would I feel sad? And then I realized how many stupid times a day I used the word "I". In fact, probably all I ever do is think about myself. And how lame is that when there's, like, 7 billion other people out there on the planet and when --" =

In this quote Amelia is explaining why s he changed her mind in wanting to take the thrown. Shes telling the many country leaders that are assembled in the room, about how she went from being a fragile girl to someone she could believe to run a country.

Amelia and Katherine both made huge decisons. Throughout the movie, and play both these girls becamse two different women. Amelia went from being a quiet, bushy headed girl, to a speaking, straight hair arched eyebrowed Princess. Amelia went from being known as a evil woman of the town, to beig madly in love with the man who her father arranged her with.