Aidan+Jamison-Frank

Aidan's Page. I will compare Notorious to Shrew.

Everyone has some sort of expectations, realistic or otherwise. People have expectations for them selves, and for others. Certain expectations for other people are reasonable, others unrealistic. A very common expectation that has been stereotyped through out time is what men expect from women. Connections can be drawn from Shakespearean characters to gangster rappers. These expectations include such things as, taking out the trash, doing the dishes, or wearing make-up. For example, in the biography-drama "Notorious"(2009), a gangster rapper name Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls) expects every female around him to be incredibly attractive, and will dismiss anybody else, including his baby mama, in other words, it he does have what he wants, he'll make it happen.

In Taming of the Shrew, the men expect their wives to be hard-working, loyal, and for them to "place your hands below your husband's foot"(V.II.88) if they so wish it. Petruchio, a character in Shrew, took on a particularly difficult task of making an exemplary woman of of a shrew named Katherine. Katherine was the polar opposite of a obedient wife. Like Notorious B.I.G., Petruchio didn't have what he want (a model wife), so he made it be so. He tamed the shrew.

Biggie's demand for beautiful women was born after he gained recognition as a rapper. In this scene, he's at a party with his friend Tupac, with "females [that] were ready ready to jump out they clothes to get at me." At this point, as far as girls were concerned, he had what he wanted. On the other hand, it was much more difficult for Petruchio. After wedding Kate the shrew, he begins to mold her into what he wants. Unfortunately, its difficult to mold hard clay. But after working it, and working it, adding water as well, the clay will eventually give, just as Kate does.

="Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,= =Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,= =And for thy maintenance commits his body"= (V.II.162-4)

This quote comes after Petruchio 'tames' Kate in the final scene of "Shrew". She's gives a speech (expert above) on how amazing a husband is, on how how a real woman treat their husband, and how a lady acts. Her speech is defines a good wife in that time, and in turn, is lauded. It may have took to the very end of the book, but Petruchio //did// eventually got what he wanted.



Biggie's influence over women becomes intensified as the movie went along. By the time he's recording his first album, he had the power to have a girl at any time - "[Get] some females, tell 'em we having a party" Biggie says to Lil' Cease (above) in the recording studio. Biggie's fine women extended not only deeply into his life, but those who affiliated with him like Lil' Cease and D-Roc, a long time friend.