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= Deliver Us From The Shrew ? = Deliver Us From Eva & Taming of The Shrew

Description: The name of the film I'm comparing my Taming of the Shrew to is called Deliver Us From Eva. Which inspired the tittle of my blog post. The main characters I'm focusing on are Ray, Eva & Katherine, Petruchio. Eva and Ray are characters from the film Deliver Us from Eva. The basis of the story line is that Eva (played by Gabrielle Union) is this shrewd bitter woman who's over protective of her little sisters and she said to be a mans worst nightmare. Her sisters husbands can't stand her so they higher Ray ( played by LL Cool J) the ultimate player to tame her so that she will be out of their hair for ever. But when doing so Ray eventually falls in love with Eva. I'm comparing them to Kate and Petruchio in the play Taming of The Shrew. In the play Katherine is a shrew who stands in the way of her younger sister getting married. In ordered for someone to marry her sister she was to be wed first. There for Petruchio is put up tot the test of taming her but in the process eventually fall in love with her.

Thesis Statement:

Taming of the shrew is about how one man, Pertruchio, goal it to tame a shrew, Kathrine. By deceiving her and eventually making her fall in love. In the film Deliver Us From Eva, Ray, who's a lady's man is sent to tame Eva who's bitter and doesn't believe in love,by using deception. But while doing this Eva makes him realize that he really is falling in love. The plots of both Deliver Us From Eva and Taming of The Shrew are formed around honesty and deception though both are different, it shows that the expectation of a male in a relationship is to be dishonest and for a female to need to be controlled.

Comparisons:

**" Petruchio: Signor Baptista, my business asketh haste, and every day I cannot come to woo. You knew my father well, and in him me, Left soely heir to all his lands and goods, which I have bettered rather than decreased. Then tell me, if I get your daughters love. What dowry shall i have with her to wife ?** **Babtista: After my death, the one half of my lands, and in possession, twenty thousand crowns."** (Act 2, Scene 1, line 121-123)

This is the part in the play where Petruchio is talking to Kathrines father, and aranging that he will woo her but for a price. And Babista offers money in exchange for him to wed his daughter. Here Babitsta is basically asking Petruchio to strick his daughter into marrying him by being sneaky and dishonest. This is wear the lies firt begin between Kathrine and Petruchio. This compares to Deliver us From Eva in a Scene were Ray is accepting the bribe from husbands.



"Ray can get Eva to let go of here sisters and when its just us and them we can have them all alone." " I'll do it, I'm in a jam my house is being put up for auction, I need 5,000 to cover the rest' " What ! Are you serious? " " Look fellas are you gonna pay or what ? " Fine !" This is a shot from the film were ray is accepting the bet from the husbands to tame Eva and essentially turn her into this huble woman but not get attached. The husbands offer ray 5,000 dollars to get Eva out of there hair. Meaning trick her by pretending to actually loves her. This is were the deceptuon in Eva and Rays relationship begins.

**" Petruchio: You are called plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst. But KAte, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate...Hearing thy mildness praised i every town.**

**Kate: Moved, in good time ! Let him that moved you hither remove you hence. I knew you at the first. You were movable.** This is a scene from the play were Petruchio is attempting to woo Kate. He lies and is telling her things that he thinks she would like to hear to make her feel good but he knows they are not true. For instance when he calls her pretty Kate and says they he's heard of her beauty in other towns. When this is well untrue Kate is know as a shrew and every one know it hes just tellign her what she wants to hear. But to his surprise Kate doesn't react how he plans. And Kate reply's with a smart remark essentially asking Petruchio to leave her alone and to go back from were he came. In a scene in Deliver Us From Eva, Ray is put in a similar situation.



In this scene Ray attempts to woo Eva by telling her that shes pretty and that he would like to take her out all thing you think a woman would like to hear but Eva reply's by saying " I know what scares men. I know there secrets. i know your type the playa, playa who thinks woman are disposable.The confused man who doesn't know if he want to date you or your brother, and the lazy ones who live at home with their moms and expect you to pick up up the check. See I know these thing hay would I want to go out with you. This surprises Ray hes telling her all these lies about how her personality i beautiful but its not working giving him more reason to want to gain control of Eva. As Petruchio wants to do with Kathrine.

Conclusion:

In conclusion both the film and play show that woman are shrewd and need to be controlled in order to behave in the proper manor. It also shows that males think the only way to a woman's heart is to dishonest and decietful. The main ides surrounding both is that woman and men play different roles in society and even though how sexist they may seem men will always want to control woman, and men will always feel compelled to lies, cheat and be dishonest to get what they want.