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Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to “50 First Dates”
 * Taming her **

In the "The Taming of the Shrew” Petruchio swears he will have Katherine as, no matter the cost. In the 2003 movie, “50 first dates” the main character does something very similar. Henry Roth a local in Hawaii, named Lucy starts out going after girls who are not local, but soon finds a woman that he does not want to leave, however she does not remember anything the next day. She has short term memory lose. In “The Taming of the Shrew” Petruchio was the same way, except he was doing it for money not love.  Petruchio and Henry have very little in common, except maybe they both need to make a girl love them. They both use completely different methods, which is interesting. Petruchio's trouble is Katherine's resistance, and that is his only trouble. He has pretty much everyone on his side, and is very open about it all. While Henry on the other hand has too work around the more problems then Lucy’s resistance, but he needs to be creative every single day to make her love him, and he needs to work around her parents and her friends who want wants best for her. These are two different situations but yet they have the same idea behind it. Get the girl. The challenges are a little bit different, but they are both doing the same thing. Henry every single day tames a forgetful girl, who said she loves him one day, and the next tried to kill him, while Petruchio has to tame a mean hearted girl. The comparison of these two stories shows how **taming has not gone away, even in the modern day**, all people are doing is taming the one they love, the only thing that has changed from now and then( and this also has to do with the situation) is the methods being used. **Taming is not a bad thing it’s a good thing and everyone does it it. Call it love, and playing hard to get but it is what it is** To give my hand, opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen” Katherine is displaying her dislike of the man she is to marry because she is being forced, he is late for the wedding she then runs away weeping. but when he finally gets there, he is wearing the most ridicules clothing for a wedding. He takes her away as his property soon after, and tried to tame her, by acting as if she was so great that she could not eat any food. It was all too good for her. He treats her in a way that seems good but its really bad. He essentially starves her In this picture, it shows how hennery is trying to trick and “tame” this girl, in the scene he feels bad and he thinks of Lucy so he tells the girl his elaborate plan. He makes the girl think she is drunk so she does not feel bad if she has sex with him. Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, And for thy maintence commits his body” is a quote in “Taming of the Shrew” that is said by Katherine after she cracks and becomes “tamed” and now she says he is her master in this scene you see that Lucy has a daughter, and a family with Henry, he successfully tamed not only the girl but the girls father as well. Now the taming has been reduced to a simple morning video that She watches every time she wakes up in the end, both guys manage to tame the girls. The guy in modern times Henry tames her using love, even though he also knows how to tame girls by tricking them, while Petruchio tamed his girl with a mean hearted trick that broke her mentally. Although they are different methods they are doing the same thing, one is more affective then the other because if you treat a girl with love then they will respect you more, but once a girl is broken like in the Shrew, they don’t become unbroken.
 * “Taming of the Shrew” quote ** : "No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forced
 * “Taming the Shrew” quote number 2**: “ Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,