Charles+Norman


 * == //Taming the Shrew// **Who Doesn't Want To Marry You** ==



Comparing The Taming of The Shrew, and Madea's Family Reunion.
== **In Shakespeare's play Taming of the Shrew, the women really get to make big decisions for themselves. The men is this play made the "serious" decisions. In this play Sir Baptista has two daughters name Bianca, and Katherine. Since Bianca was younger than Katherine Baptista would not let anyone marry her until Katherine was married. In Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion Lisa is the younger daughter of Victoria, who is set to marry Carlos, one of ATL's top** bachelors. The only reason she is even considering marrying him is because her mother is setting them up, so she can get her hands on Carlos' money. Lisa doesn't want to marry Carlos because he is abusive, but Victoria wants her to tough it out, and stay in the relation because of the money. Some parents tend to think about themselves more than they think about their children when it comes to their child's marriage. == = = = "AFTER MY DEATH, THE ONE HALF OF MY LANDS, AND IN POSSESSION, TWENTY THOUSAND CROWNS." =

(Act 2, Scene 1, 128 & 129)
== Baptisa is basically trading his daughter to Petruchio. He wants both of his daughters to be married, but all of the guys want to marry Bianca, so he has to offer something to one of the guys, so one of them would marry Katherine. He does not want Bianca to get married before Katherine who is his oldest daughter. Petruchio accepted this offer that he could not refuse, and him and Katherine got married soon after. Baptista is really thinking about himself, because Katherine doesn't want to marry Petruchio, but he puts him on her, because he wants both of his daughters to be married. ==

= = = "You're Going To mess up the best thing that can ever happen to us, I mean you." = = = == Victoria is pissed at the family reunion when both of her daughters Lisa (in the yellow), and Vanessa (In the polka dots) tell her that Lisa has been staying at Madea's house because she was tired of Carlos abusing her. Victoria doesn't like it because this will affect her getting money from Carlos. She shows it by saying what she said. She only wants Lisa to marry Carlos so she can get her money. She has no consideration at all about how Lisa feels about marrying Carlos. == = = = "I MUST CONFESS YOUR OFFER IS THE BEST, AND LET YOUR FATHER MAKE HER THE ASSURANCE, SHE IS YOUR OWN;" =

(Act 2, Scene 1, 408-410)
== This time Baptista is selling Bianca to Gremio because Gremio offered him something he could not resist. Bianca has had no say in who she could get married to. Its just whoever brings forward the best deal to her father gets her. Its like he auctioned her off, because Tranio was offering thing to Baptista for Bianca. Once again Baptista wants his girls married so he sales them. The girls may not even like their husbands, but to dad it does not matter because as long as he is benefitting from the girls being married. ==

= "Carlos I'm not going to do what you, and my mother want me to do, you will not control my live anymore." =

== After being pressured by her mother to married Carlos, Lisa decides its time for her to take control of her life. Lisa decides not to marry Carlos. Carlos was pretty upset, and he started to beat on her, but thanks to Madea teaching Lisa how to defend herself she through hot grits on him, and beat him with a pan. To top it all off she through her engagement ring on him while he was laying the ground. Her mother no longer could benefit from Carlos. Lisa was being forced to marry him even though he was abusive just so Victoria could get her money. ==

== Some parents tend to think about themselves more than they think about their children when it comes to their child's marriage.In both The Taming of The Shrew, and Madea's Family Reunion the women were not really allowed to make their own decisions. It was really up to the parents of the brides to choose their grooms. People should be able to find love by themselves, and their parents shouldn't look to profit off of their child's marriage. Parents need to be accepting of what their children want, and not what they want for their children. ==

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