Should we fight others to grasp our true “LOVE”?
In the play “Taming of the Shrew” by Shakespeare, he created a character (Petruchio) who became a suitor to his wife (Katherine), to show his audience how others will do anything but be themselves to get what they want out of their relationship. This play is similar to the romantic comedy “Vampires Suck”. It happened to be that the main characters (Jacob and Edward) find their way into doing some of the same things that the suitors did in “Taming of the Shrew” but only in this movie they pretended to be human in order to win Becca.
Although many can see that Petruchio and Edward have the same portion of affection and ambitions in their relationship and situation, their approach to the people that they love is a bit different. Petruchio’s goal is to force Katherine to love and respect him. On the other hand, Edward finds his way to manipulate Becca by showing his compassion and controlling her emotions. Now these two positions may present two different kinds of amusement, but it also represents how other belief system towards romance have innovated over time. Therefore, this reflects the enduring thought that no matter how many centuries ago that men found their way of having so much power over their women, till this day they must have a ‘higher position’ in their relationship. Overtime this has caused a lot of conflict and disagreements in their relationships.
Katherine:
"Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.
I see a woman may be made a fool
If she had not a spirit to resist.
Petruchio:
They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.
Obey the bride, you that attend her.
Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,
Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves.
But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;
I will master of what is mine own.
She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything.
And here she stands, touch her whoever dare...
(Act 3, Scene 3, Lines 225-239)
In previous quote that was mentioned, Petruchio and Katherine were having an argument about how she should act at the event. He basically told her to respect the bride when they attend the wedding. He also included how she is literally ‘his everything’ and everyone in and out of their circle should respect that. Usually in the play, whenever Petruchio is offering advice to Katherine he would say it as if he is saying an important speech. From the audience’s perspective it seems as though this is a way of commanding her to keep quiet and obey his instructions. This could cause Kate to build up with more anger being with Petruchio just for the fact of how he constantly control what she says or do. However, this did not ruin their marriage because he had won by taken and controlling the entire relationship and allowing Kate to be his dutchess.
Becca finds herself in a similar situation in the movie however, Edward warned her more about her safety than her behavior.
In the movie, Edward has been so controlling in their relationship that he even appears in her head after he left and broke up with her. In this scene of the movie, Becca was hallucinating about Edward whenever she may do something “ricky” and Edward is warning her to not go and even talk to the creepy men on the motorcycles. She ignore him for a good minute by trying to talk to the motormen and one of them hits her with a can, causing her to realize that the Edward in her head was right about the men. Connecting to the play the situation with Becca and Edward is more ‘severe’ than Petruchio and Katherine because they face more issues about their circle and relationship than people outside of their circle trying to harm them.
Katherine:
"My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
My heart as great, my reason haply more,
To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
But now I see our lances are but straws,
Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
Then vail your stomachs, for it is 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.
Petruchio:
Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate"
(Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 186-196)
Katherine has made a long speech about how much she loves and care for her husband at the end of the play. This represents not only to the actors in the play but towards the audience of how Petruchio made sure she would transformed herself from an ignorant rude woman to a kind gentle lady. In the quote she was basically stating that; a woman should protect and support her husband, no matter what while a woman is at home unharmed and sound. Therefore, for equal exchange Petruchio would want her to just show respect and compassion in their relationship.
At the end of “Vampires Suck”, Becca did the similar thing that Katherine did by showing him she will do anything for him.
In the last scene of the movie, the vampires Zolturi leader, Daro wanted Edward to turn Becca into a vampire or else they would have to suffer the consequences. This allowed Becca to show her love to Edward by accepting the Zolturi request. However, Edward would only turn her into a vampire if she says yes to marrying him, which in this scene she did. This made Becca prove her love and Edward
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