Ali+Ahmed

=//Yes I will Tame the Shrew! //=  Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to "Yes man"

 "The Taming of the Shrew" presents the character Lucentio who disguises himself as a tutor in order to court Bianca, a seemingly perfect women in the eyes of her suitors. In the movie "Yes Man" the pessimistic character of Carl takes an oath never to say "no", adopting a personality contrary to his own. With his new personality he woes Allison, a quirky and unpredictable women who falls in love with his outlandish qualities. Lucentio's deception is used as a cover to get closer to Bianca and when revealed, the deception is played off and Lucentio get a wife. Carl's fake personality is what Allison was looking for and instead of accepting the deception, the revelation leaves their relationship in turmoil. Today's relationships are much more fragile than they used to be and one's openess matters a lot more.

// Lucentio has only just seen Bianca for the first time and it is assumed that he has immediately fallen in love. Lucentio then thinks of a way to get closer to Bianca. //

=//"Basta, content thee, for I have it full. We have not yet been seen in any house, Nor can we be distinguished by our faces for man or master. Then it follows thus: Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead, keep house and port and servants as I should. I will some other be, some Florentine, some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa. 'Tis hatched, and shall be so. //=  (Act I,Scene i, 169-177)

 Lucentio formulates a plot to make himself seem as a tutor in order to get closer to the fair maiden Bianca. He says that he will have his underling Tranio, play the role as himself while he takes on the image of a person with lesser stature. His plan is only possible because no person has seen them yet nor will anyone be able to point out the difference. Lucentio is knowingly going to conceal the truth from the person, not taking into account the future problems his plan might bring fourth. Lucentio knows that his biggest obstacle is not Bianca's feeling but more the feeling of her father. What matters is not how Bianca will react when she is lied to but if he can get the persmission from her father in the first place. The importance of honesty in a relationship is less emphazsized in such a time period and a person's personality has less to do with a relationship then their stature.

= //"The era of "yes" has begun!" //=  Carl is introduced to the plot of the movie as a man whose life has been going into turmoil. He hates his jobs, has bad relationships with his friends and never shows to be happy. A work place acquaintance pressures Carl into going to a "yes" seminar in order to be a better person. He reluctantly attends and his is put on the spot and is ultimately forced into making a pact where he has to say "yes" to every opportunity that comes by him. The movie immediately puts the character into a situation where has to do things he would have never done before. He takes guitar lessons and saves a suicidal man because of it leading to better things in his life. Although the changes maybe helping him, he still says yes reluctantly, showing aspects of the personality he has hidden for his new pact. Carl meets a girl named Allison and they immediate catch onto to one another. Allison has a personality similar to Carl's and they have unique and unpredictable relationship that takes their lives in all kinds of places. Allison statement as to why she resonates with Carl when she says "The world's a playground. You know that when you are a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it." She believes in new experiences and hates to be restrained and refuses to live a "normal" life. Carl sees this in her and begins to become worried of her reaction to his "fake" personality. He tries to keep his pact of "yes" and in the process is able to meet Allison's expectations. In contrast to Lucentio's deception, Carl's fake identity was used to gain the approval of Allison. Carl's deception was centered around pleasing the women while being cautious not to reveal himself in fear of causing negative reaction. Due to the time period, Carl's believes that there is importance in keeping the deception intact for the women to be content. = = =//"Hic ibat, as I told you before, Simois, I am Lucentio, hic est, son unto Vincentio of Pisa, Sigeia tetrllus, disguised thus to get your love, Hic steterat, and that "Lucentio" that comes a-wooing, Priami, is my man Trania, regia, bearing my port, celsa senis, that we might beguile the old pantaloon." //=  (Act III, Scene i, 33-38)

 In this quote, Lucentio reveals his true identity to Bianca. Lucentio abandons his disguise of a mere tutor and shows Bianca the wealthy man he really is. Once the truth is first revealed Bianca is skeptical and end her next line saying "presume not, despair not" as if to tell Lucentio she will give him a chance. Latter in the scene Hortensio, a disguised prospective suitor to Bianca, notices Bianca taking a liking to Lucentio and is in his eyes beginning to fall for him. Lucentio lied to Bianca's family, the other suitors, and Bianca herself, yet she was able to eventually become his wife. Without the matter of deception from Lucentio even being brought up, Lucentio and Bianca were married. The faults of Lucentio could not have changed the outcome of the wedding. Deception was a necessary tool to win over Bianca and their relationship was built on it.

=//"Even if I had met you, I would have never asked you out" //=

Carl eventually is revealed to Allison and their relationship comes to end. Jack realizes that his only success in the relationship and even the only reason they met was because of their alternate personality. Allison is hurt by Carl's deception and leaves Carl crying. Carl was unable to maintain the deception and he thought he had lost Allison because he could not keep up with his fake-self. He believed that his false personality was now incompatible. Allison says "You don't think I'm scared of anything? Who do think I am? I'm scared of a lot of things." Allison later clarifies that she was less angry about the false personality but that she had been lied to in the first place. She did not care about his personality but the fact that she was being deceived. Biacna was not bothered by Lucentio's deception because it did not matter at the time. As long as Lucentio could pay the dowry, the world of Bianca was a fairy tale in a sense. Her relationship with Lucentio was not threatened by anything Lucentio could have done beyond physical abuse.

In conclusion, the way relationships are treated are affected by the views society gives them for that time. In the time of the Taming of the Shrew, the women's role in a relationship was to the figure resulting in deception and other forms of modern day relationship treacheries as norms. Carl was unable to get away with lying to his important partner because the role has become much more prominent of the women and is now as important as the man's. This rather new importance of women in relationships, now passed down from the role of the father, will not only require the man to win his partner over through romance but now through honesty.

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