Iraida+Serrano

** //Till Death Do us Part (or Bring Together)// **
// Comparing "Just like Heaven" to "Taming of the Shrew". //

Society today sees love and relationships as something that happens straightaway and not as something that can progress from friendship or hate into romantic love. In the 2005 movie, "Just Like Heaven" it shows how the death of Elizabeth did not stop David from falling in love, with her ghost. It proves that love can exist even if the relationship is not ideal. In the begging they are become friends and after Elizabeth awaken from her coma, the become something more. "Taming of the Shrew" shows how two people, who although alike in their fiery temper, manage to find a common element where they can love one another. Even though at first, Katherine hated Pertruchio and wanted nothing to do with him. How the act towards each other in the end says differently. The characters from the play, Petruchio and Katherine and the ones from the movie, David and Elizabeth, and alike in the manor that they go about their relationship. They argue, they laugh and in one, someone technically dies and is brought back to life only to have the relationship progress into something more. All these elements add up to humorous and heart breaking moments both though out the play and the movie. **These texts reflects how society believes that a relationship needs to start in an "ideal" way to have love. Love can occur between the two partners even if it didn't begin in an "ideal" way.**

=**"So may you lose your arms.**= =**If you strike me, you are no gentleman,**= =And if no gentleman, why then no arms"=

(Act 2, Scene 1, 235-37) Arms: Coat of arms, the mark of a gentleman

Here is the first meeting of Petruchio and Katherine. In the beginning of their relationship, Katherine simply refuses to believe that Petruchio may love her. So once he insults her, which even though is a odd way of showing his love, she threatens cut off is arms if he does for he is not truly a gentleman. Already after their first meeting, the two of their fiery tempers begin to shine through. Ideally society would have their relationship have started out with them meeting with smiles and happiness with an instant connection waiting to happen.

Elizabeth and Katharine are alike in which they refuse to believe the man may love them; as well as how David and Petruchio share the commonality in how they express it in the beginning of their relationship.

"Your like an AM radio that someone shoved in my head and I can't get out."

Here Elizabeth is trying to regain some of her memories since she lost few when she went into a coma and became a ghost. David is the only one that can see her, hear her and talk to her. Because of this, Elizabeth never leaves his side and this frustrates David. In his frustration he yells at her, "**Your like an AM radio that someone shoved in my head and I can't get out**." Elizabeth seems angered by this but chooses not to respond and even helps David get into the apartment that he locked himself out of. Seeing as she is a ghost, this relationship is already out of the ordinary. The man is not allowing the "state" of the woman he is falling in love with effect what will happen between them in the future, or when she wakes up.

=**"...Then vail your stomachs, for it's no boot,**= =**And place your hands below your husband's foot;**= =**In token of which duty, if he please,**= =**My hand is ready, may it do him ease.**= =**...Why there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate."**=

(Act 5, Scene 2, 192-96)

Here Kathrine has just given a speech on how woman are meant to serve their man. Because she had such a temper, the first thought to cross someones mind was not that she was serving her man because she had to but because she wanted to. There would would be no other way that after all the arguing that the fiery temper that made her who she was would just go away.This supports that love was found in a relationship that wasn't founded in an ideal way.

Similarly, Elizabeth comes to the realization that love exist where she thought it didn't.

"You."

After Elizabeth wakes up from her coma, she has no recollection of David at all. However, this does not stop David from doing one last favor for her, a garden. After seeing this, Elizabeth then asks for the keys to the apartments back. Once their hands touch, she regains all her memories of when she was a ghost. After seeing how his touch was affecting her, he grabs her head and she whispers one word, "You." Yes, their relationship had started out quite strange, and he did try to steal her comatose body from the hospital so the doctor would not take her off life support, they still managed to get past that and love developed in their relationship.

Conclusion The fact that in both cases the relationship ends up with both people in love proves that society thinks that a relationship should begin in an ideal way to have love but it does not always happen that way. In the end of the play of both the movie and the play, after much arguing and threats, they still manage to overcome it to find love in each other.