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=500 Days of Taming the Shrew=

Comparing "The Taming of the Shrew" to "500 Days of summer"
The character Katherine from "The Taming of the Shrew" at first does not believe in needing to be taken by a man as isn't very much for the Idea of being "tamed" as the other characters put it. This is a similar basis to the character of Summer from the movie "500 Days of Summer", her character does not believe that she needs to have a boyfriend and thinks that it is perfectly okay for her to be independent. Summer also believes that love does not exist which, in context, Katherine also seems to believe. These two characters are more independent women for the beginning parts of both the play and the Movie. By the end of the play and the movie both characters are happily married. **Which shows that these texts reflect that those who aren't sure about love's existence always find love in the end.**

=**"Gentleman forward to the bridal dinner. I**= =**see a woman may be made a fool if she**= =**had not a spirit to resist." - Katherine pg. 131 Act. 3 Sc. 2**=

Katherine talks about needing to be somewhere in this scene, but within this quote she mentions something about a woman having the spirit to resist. Which shows a sense of independence being needed as a woman.



In this scene from "500 Days of Summer", Summer is talking about how she feels that love does not exist, but she also talks about how she feels that it is perfectly okay for her to be a free and independent woman that doesn't need a relationship.This concept seems similar to the ideas and thoughts that Katherine has in "The Taming of the Shrew".

="I am ashamed that women are so simple To= =offer war where they should kneel for peace..." - Katherine pg. 219 Act. 5 Sc. 2=

In this scene Katherine makes her final speech about how a wife should be nothing but perfect for her husband because her husband does so much for her and she speaks about how a wife should obey and love her husband, which is a huge turn around for her.



In this scene Summer is showing off her ring to her friends at a party. She recently was proposed to and is planning to marry someone. This of course is totally against how she was in the beginning of the movie, whereas she was saying that love was fantasy and that she liked being single.

In the end these characters are very similar when it comes to both their mindset and the way they both change through out "The Taming of the Shrew" and "500 Days of Summer". Katherine and Summer both are totally against the idea of love and want to be independent towards the beginning of their stories, but by the end both of them get married and love their husbands. Even though they weren't sure of love's existence they both found love.