Ryan+Francis

__// TAKE ME AS I AM //__
// Taming of the Shrew vs. Shallow Hal //

In this world, people see what is in front of them, and take in what they see, rather than what they can't see. In today's society eple are judged by their action, but not by their reasoning, and a lot of the time

="No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forced to give my hand, opposed agaisnt my heart, unto a mad-brain rudes by, full of spleen = = who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure" **-** **//Act 3, Sc. 1, Lines 33-48 //** =

This quote shows Kate's scorn towards Patruchio. During this scene, he and she we're getting married and he not only arrived late, but he showed up wearing a Haberdashers cap and gown, not matching the wedding attire, and he showed up in an ignorant manner. In the previous chapters we've witnessed Kate's "Shrew" like behavior and have seen how she acts towards the people around her. Her reaction when she was first approached by Patruchio was hateful, and she had a lot of sass in her attitude, but Patruchio had previously devised a plan to tame her with his own methods before hand after hearing of her reputation. During the course of the story we see how Patruchio and Kate dispute to the point we're even the silliest things he says Katherine contends to. She slowly, but surely, begins to warm up to him after a while and realize the good in him despite his cocky, arrogant attitude, and she later bows to him in front of many and confesses her new found love for him.



Shallow Hal is a movie about a man who, at death, promised his father that he'd only date beautiful, top notch woman for the rest of his life. This event in Hal's life put him in a one track mind set that skinny, long hair and gorgeous was the only woman for him, but he couldn't find what he wanted. One day he run's into this Guru whom he befriends, and the Guru puts a spell on his new friend, Hal's vision becomes skewed and he ends up falling in love with a woman whom is picture perfect to he and his fathers wishes. But what he didn't know was that the Guru's spell was to turn every unattractive, overweight woman into a beautiful woman with Hal's picture perfect features, when in reality she wasn't. This new view on life brought Hal to this woman he meets with long pretty hair, a coke bottle figure, and has the brains of an ivy league scholar. Hal begins to peruse and date this woman, and later finds out after his guru friend dispels his spell on Hal, Hal learns the woman he became attached to is a fat, morbidly obese girl, but what shocked him the most was that she was a Doctor, good with kids, she had smarts, she was caring, genuine and sensual. At first he doesn't accept it, but then he begins to realize the error of his ways and to peruse the woman further.

This story has many comedic avenue's, but the one lesson it teaches is to accept inner beauty, and true qualities in a person rather than the outer appearances. The things Hal sought out, were on the inside of a woman he didn't expect to be with, rather on the outside of a woman who would never exist to him.

//** "It hasn't occurred to you that picking girls Solely on their looks isn't the best way to go about it?" **//

One thing I saw in the movie was after Hal's promise, he went around to every club known to man, walked up to every girl he found attractive, and danced with or tacked to her, depending on setting, and they always played him. Hal was never successful with woman until he saw their inner beauty. This quote is his friendly reminder that not all woman are what they crack up to be, and that just because she's beautiful doesn't mean she's good for you. And just because she's beautiful doesn't mean you have to go after her. Some woman have inner qualities that trump over the outer, and in this movie, Hal's overall goal was to learn to view the inner vision of the woman around him.

This is the realistic view of //** "Hal Clarkson is dating a vision only he can see" **//

This quote was said by the announcer in the movie trailer, and I wasn't going to use it but I found it relative to what my overall views on the movie were. Mid way into the movie, Hal finds a woman whom he finds extremely attractive, she has a slender body type, and she hassling hair and an amazing smile. But as the movie goes on ironic things happen in the background of their relationship that allows the viewers to know that his new Girlfriend is obese, but when we look through Hal's immediate vision, it's this skinny woman. I think the director of this movie did a good job of keeping the audiences attention that his new girlfriend Rosemary was fat. Such as in the middle, they go horseback riding, and from his eyes, he see's his perfect woman, but he doesn't notice the horse she's riding is lagging behind, trying to catch his breath and keep his pace, then he falls over .Second Hal and Rosemary went canoeing and he was so busy in the moment of his imaginary girlfriend that he didn't notice her side of the boat was weighed down on her side, etc.



To me she’s married, not unto my clothes. Could I repair what she will wear in me as I can change these poor accoutrements, t‘were well for Kate and better for myself.

This quote explains Patruchio's ability to look past the fact of Katherine being a shrew, and it shows that he;s determined to better her so that she'll be a suitable wife. At first it seemed as if Patruchio was indeed the bad, unthoughtful husband, whom, as Katherine said, she'd never love. But in due time, his ways of almost mind torture, went into effect. This quote also shows Patruchio's ability to accept, and to work with different changes around him. We all know that he wass promised the dowry from Bptista, Katherines father, but he also knew what he was getting into and sitll managed to stay with Katethrine without being driven aay by her bitchy attitude.

Together, the Shakespearian play and the hollywood movie share a very similar comparison despite their time differences. Both of them include a character whom is blind to the aspect of accepting someone for whom they are, and a side character comes along and changes their views so towards the end of the story. The two focus characters are Hal and Katherine. As explained before, Hal is a man whom only goes for the outer beauty of woman, and he judges them based on his natural sight of what he perceives to be to true beauty. Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, has similar ways that she connects to Hal, for example, in the beginning, Patruchio treated her like property, and gave a whole speech exclaiming:

“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”

Basically saying that she is whatever he wats her to be. And throughout the story, Kate not only objects to him, but she began subjecting to him as well. When he said the sun was out, when it clearly wasn't she'd argue him till she lost, and he had a lasting effect on her, because no matter how many servants he put his hands on, no matter how many ridiculous orders he's commanded, and no matter how skewed his though process was, Katherine still was able to find the good in him. Katharine and Hal each had a bias on the opposite sex throughout both of their stories, and they both find a different point of view that helps them understand the opposite sex more, and to warm up to them. Hal expected every beautiful woman to be his perfect match, while Katherine though of Patruchio as a man in which she could not love. These two sources have portrayed acceptance in another person, with their flaws and all.