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// Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to "Couples Retreat" // In the book “The Taming of the Shrew”, Katherine, who is married to a very controlling man named Petruchio, has no intentions on falling in love with him or abiding by any of his rules as his spouse. She is a very, as the book suggest, shrew women who has to put up a fight about everything. In the movie “Couples Retreat” the character Jason Smith is married to Mrs. Smith. Their marriage is really organized and for the most part directed by Jason’s say-so. Jason has a good heart and good intentions for his marriage but goes about fulfilling them in all the wrong ways. Although in “Couples Retreat”, Jason doesn’t view his wife as property like Petruchio does his wife in “ The Taming of the Shrew”, he does try to push the relationship where he wants it to go without making sure his partner was happy with his decisions. Neither of these characters, in the beginning of the movie or book, showed that they completely appreciated their spouses but ending out the book and movie, they show their true love and appreciation for their partners. Although marriage partners don’t often see what they have in their significant other at first, sooner or later, they can appreciate the spouse they have. ** “’Moved,’ in good time! Let him that moved you hither ** ** Remove you hence. I knew you at the first you were movable.” ** (Act 2, Scene 1, lines 203-206) This quote from the “Taming of the Shrew”, Katherine has just met Petruchio, who has just asked her to be his wife. They go back and forth with Petruchio telling Katherine that she will be called Kate if he wants to call her Kate and Katherine telling him that he can go back to wherever he came from because she doesn’t fancy him much. This quote is showing Katherine being unappreciative of Petruchio and not really caring much for him at all. She tells him that he can just go because she is not enjoying his presence. She is being really rude to him and shows that she isn't grateful of his offer to be his wife. ** " **** Fie, fie! Unknit **** that threat'ning unkind brow ** ** And dart not scornful glances from those eyes **  ** To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor. **  ** It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, **  ** Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, **  ** And in no sense is meet or amiable. **  ** A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, **  ** Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, **  ** And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty **  ** Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. **  ** Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, **  ** Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, **** " ** (Act 5, Scene 2, lines 152-195) This section of the scene in of the book, Katherine is giving her final speech. She is at her fathers’ house with her husband Petruchio at her sisters wedding banquet. Attending this banquet was Katherine’s brother-in-law, Lucentio and Hortensio and his Widow. The men mocked Petruchio for being married to Katherine, who they made out to be thee worst women to marry. Petruchio bets the two men that his wife of all the other wives would be the most obedient when summoned. Petruchio wins the bet and when Katherine promptly comes when she is called upon, Petruchio tells her to bring the other men’s wives to them. Katherine gives a very lengthy speech about women’s compliance to their husbands. This quote shows that over the time she has been married to Petruchio she has grown to become, what people from back then [REWORDING NEEDED], would call the ideal wife. This shows that although Petruchio’s methods of turning her into the ideal women weren’t the most agreeable ways, that she still found the point in what he was doing and could now appreciate him. In the first picture from “Couples Retreat” Cynthia and Jason, along with the other characters from the movie, are partaking in a couple’s skill building exercise where they must “take off their masks” or cloths and express to their partners what they see. Jason tells Cynthia, “You look like the earth”. Cynthia is a little confused by what her husband had said to her and when he tried to explain himself he used words like, “fruitful” and “fertile”. As the couple is in a place where their marriage is suffering, one of the causes being they cannot conceive a child, Cynthia feels a little uncomfortable with Jason’s choice of words. Later in the movie, in picture two, Jason and Cynthia, along with other members of the movie, just finish Canoeing across a body of water when Cynthia jumps out of the boat and swims a significant distance to shore because Jason frustrated her in the canoe. When she reaches shore Jason acts as if the argument never happened and Cynthia just releases a lot of the anger she has pent up over the duration of her marriage. These scenes shows that Jason is smothering his wife and trying to pretend as if everything is perfect when Cynthia has embraced that that is not the case. Both, Cynthia and Jason, came to the island to fix their marriage but Jason is making it hard for Cynthia because he doesn’t want to talk about anything. Jason’s behavior toward Cynthia during the scene shows that he doesn’t want to face the real facts that he is not appreciating his wife for who she is. In this scene of the movie, Jason and Cynthia are standing on a patio above the beach with their friends and skill-building instructor. Their skill-building instructor is upset with the group because they did not arrive at the set time to watch the sun rise and participate in their final skill building activity. Jason cuts the skill-building instructor off in the middle of his speech about them being late tell him and the group that although things had been rocky between him and his wife, they’ve seem to have found the spark that their marriage was missing for so long. In this scene Jason shows through his actions and words his sudden realization that he does appreciate his wife no matter what. He shows her affection and pays attention to her and not the itinerary for couples skill building. He expresses to her that she matters no matter if she can or cannot produce children with him. Although the two couples went about finding the spark in their marriage differently, they both seemed to figure out what was important. They managed to fight through the worst of it until they could make it work. The social message that both stories give off is that ignoring the problems in your relationship makes everything seem perfect. But as they disregarded that message they found the true relevance of their spouses.
 * // They Found The Spark…. I Guess. //**