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====//This is a collection of pages where students are comparing selections from William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" to a film of their choice.// ====

//Full assignment instructions://
====//Your task is to write a visual essay which compares and/or contrasts 'The Taming of the Shrew' with a modern movie or play that focuses on courtship/dating. The final product will include both writing and screen shots of the movie you choose. Here's how to plan and execute this:// ====

//7. Honesty and deception in relationships//
====//2. Think about which movie also has a message about this focus area. You are strongly encouraged to pick a comedy. The movie should also depict "modern" life, from the last 30 years or so.// ==== ====//3. Watch that movie (again) and identify a SPECIFIC SCENE that you can compare/contrast with a specific scene in "Shrew." Again, the forum will help you identify which moments could be good for this analysis.// ====

//In your analysis, seek to answer the following question://
====//What do these portrayals show us about society's attitudes towards courtship/dating? (Identify what the main messages of "Shrew" and your movie are, and describe HOW they are similar or different.)// ====

//A few requirements://
====//- Your final product should have a clever title, a comprehensive written introduction, two examples from the play (direct quotes) and two examples from your movie (screen shots).// ====

//- Make sure your writing is professional! IM-speak and typos will not be tolerated.//
// Curiosity Killed The Cat //

// This is a comparison of the movie Clerks II, 2006, and the book Taming of the Shrew ////. //

In the play "Taming of the Shrew" it shows that when a man and a woman get married the man is the expected boss in the relationship and the woman is suppose to be obedient and woo his needs. In the play Petruchio commands Katherine to do as he pleases. In the movie "Clerks II" one of the main characters Dante is in a opposite predicament when he's is suppose to be the boss in the relationship but his fiancé expects him to be the perfect man for her and her needs.

Petruchio and Dante live total backwards lives, which each person’s role is switched. Dante only wanting what’s best for his relationship and best for his life, but his fiancé wanting what’s best for her life, but using tactics like telling him what he's going to do and how his life was and is going to be. To contrast that Petruchio wants to control Katherine by _making her suffer and showing dominance over her. These two texts hints at the role of women in romantic relationships have changed over time.. Both texts reflect that women are slowly but surely taking over in dominance but before they did not, because of this both parties must come to a agreement or one party must give up.


 * "Petruchio: It shall be seven ere I go to horse. **
 * Look what I speak, or do, or think to do, **
 * You are still crossing it. Sirs, let 't alone. **
 * I will not go today, and, ere I do, **
 * It shall be what o'clock I say it is" **


 * (Act 4, Scene 3, line 198) **

This part is towards the end of the book. It is after Katherine and Petruchio had gotten married. They were on their way to Katherine’s fathers home and Petruchio says something about the time and Katherine disagrees with him. Petruchio is practically stating in this part that what ever he says is what Katherine has to agree with. Petruchio expects katherine to completly and fully give herself to him. He wants her to do as he does and to follow his lead with what ever he says. Petruchio wants his woman to do as he pleases no matter what he asks for or what he says.

In many ways this is shown through society. Shakespeare was not the only person who thought of showing it through a common media source. It’s just that sometimes people like to make the situations flipped.



// This is from the movie “Clerks II”, this movie is a romantic comedy type of movie. It flips the roles of the stereotypical relationship. Dante who is the man that is showed to the right is the main character. He is about to get married to a woman who wouldn’t give him the time of the day when he was younger, but now they are together. In this scene his best friend, Becky, talks to him about how at first he was just sitting around doing nothing then his fiancé, Emma, came in and started telling him how he was going to live his life and he quickly fell for it. She talks about how Emma just came into his life and told him how they were going to get married, and how he was going to move with her. Emma expects Dante to be completely for what ever she says. In the play “Shrew” Petruchio expects the same thing out of Katherine. But since Emma is a woman and Petruchio is a man this is a completely flipped role. This scene shows how society is okay with strong expectations even when they change someone completely. //

// Clerks II was a comedy comparing how extreme expectations are used in relationships. Not that all expectations are always as extreme as it made it seem, but a lot of them are. //

**// Petruchio: “Well, I say no. And therefore, [for] assurance, //** **// Let's each one send unto his wife, //** **// And he whose wife is most obedient //** **// To come at first when he doth send for her //** **// Shall win the wager which we will propose.” //**

**// (Act 5, Scene 2, line 67) //**

// This part is during a feast for the marriage of Bianca who is Katherine’s younger sister. The entire group of women had left the room, and all of the men start a bet. The wanted to see which one of their wives was the most obedient. They all set a high bet of __ crowns. Mentally all of the men want their wives to be obedient. Come when called something like an animal. The expect them to listen to them no matter what they are doing or what they are busy with. Society accepts expectations to be dominate and controlling. //

// Obedience is key acceptance in society, so society expect their significant other to be completely over dominant. //



// This part of the movie is more towards the beginning of the movie. Dante’s fiancé visits him while he is at work. They go outside start kissing and such then they start talking. Dante asks Emma about them getting a apartment, and Emma practically shoots his idea down and tells him that her parents are giving him a home, a job, and she’s going to give him a better life and that’s how they will live. Emma’s expectation is for Dante to do what she says and to live the life that she would like to live. Although Dante does not agree with her wishes, the society he lives in expects him to live with whatever Emma wants to keep her by his side. //

// In the End Dante does not end up marrying Emma but teaching us a good lesson about society’s expectations of people. Dante’s expectations was to be happy and not controlled which caused him to marry someone else who wasn’t trying to control his life, he marries Becky. Petruchio in the end of “Shrew” ends up having a obedient wife. Emma did not get what she wanted at the end of “Clerks II” but she learned that her expectations and Dante’s expectations weren’t exactly the same. They both understand most expectations for women and men are different. //