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=Deception, Good or Bad?= Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to "The Proposal"

As "The Taming of the Shrew" proves, the idea of having connections and being available is a way that you can get into stuff wither properly or deceivingly and gain from it. In this play Petruchio's father comes in with great connections that can help him win what he want's. In this play it so happens to be this "beautiful" unwedded woman Katherine. Out of this he gets both paid for the wedding and his love Katherine. Similar to the 2009 movie "The Proposal," one of the main characters set's out to do the same, only her it is a girl trying to win a guy and she gains both a marriage and gets save from deportation.

Although Petruchio and Margaret both share some slight similar qualities in their roles, their predicament's and way's that they use to achieve their goal are different. Petruchio's only delay is the hesitance of Katherine and her thoughts of this rapidly approaching wedding, besides that he has full support from both his friends and Katherine's father. Where as for Margaret her only delay is the rudeness and obnoxious-ness that her "fiance" sees in her, and pure unknowingness that he has of this whole marriage.

Both of these situations the authors are able to make their audiences both interested and have humor, while showing how society uses both honesty and deception in relationships. Wether that is a romantic relationship or friendship. **Both men and woman use deception as a way to gain something that they want, that can't be done out of true honesty.**

="Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste, And every day I cannot come to woo. You knew my father well, and in him me, Left solely heir to all his land and goods, Which I have bettered rather than decreased. Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love, What dowry shall I have with her to wife?"= (Act II, Scene i, 121-127)

In this quote Petruchio is using his father as a inside connection as well as his death's inherences to him to get Baptista's attention. Not only in this quote is he looking for attention, but also for approval to wed as he goes forth in marrying his "love" with what he has to offer.

In this picture from a earlier scene Margaret being desperate does all that Andrew want's even in public. He promotes him to editor, will be publishing 20,000 copies of his manuscript first run, on top of as you can clearly see in the photo ask him to marry him politely and in a way that he approved of, hence using her desperateness against her.

=You lie, in faith, for 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— For dainties are all Kates—and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation: Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded— Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs— Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.= (Act II, Scene i, 193-202)

In this quote Petruchio is telling Katherine (Baptista's daughter) that not matter what her name is and know matter what he has heard her to be that he feels the honor to propose to her and make her his wife. Here is is you can say more demanding/telling her that she is his wife, bottom line. 



In this picture Margaret is talking to two executives from the Ruick & Hunt Publishing company and they are telling her about her Visa being denied and her necessary deportation. Once Andrew comes in and politely asks for for forgiveness to interrupt relays a message with the word "engaged," which lead to lighting a bulb in Margaret's head. The still picture above if when Margaret officially publicly announces that they are engaged. By contrast like Petruchio did he just laid it out there and that was what was to be.

In the end of both the play and movie they get what they seek out for. So is deception good or bad? In the play Petruchio get both his "love" Katherine and the twenty crown and land promised to him. While for Margaret at the end of the movie doesn't get deported because along the way with true connection and emotions shared Andrew fall in love with her and does ask for her hand in marriage saving her from deportation. Petruchio, Katherine, Margaret, and Andrew all leave happy and with someone to love.