Roberto+Albano


 * In modern society as well as past societies, parental preference is one of the main reasons why people sometimes make such hasty decisions about marriage. The focus of the comparison of these two pieces of work is parental interference in courtship/dating with a slight view that they together are deceiving, instead of each other. In "The Taming of the Shrew" Petruchio is secretly forcing Katherine so that he can have the dowry. In the movie "The Proposal," the main character Margret at first is secretly forcing Andrew to marry, but then she talks to him and he agrees to go along with her so that she can become legal and keep her job. Signior Baptista wants his daughters to get married, and this gives Petruchio the advantage to force Katherine to marry him, because this almost automatically gives him the support of the family.** **The CEO's of the company do not want to lose their editor in chief because of deportation so she forces her assistant to marry her so that she can automatically become legal, so she is deceiving the company, his family, and the government. Women obvious have more of a voice, however there is always someone who wants their marriage more than they do. So the couple must either have to be in love or are aiming to achieve the same goal.

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//(to// TRANIO//)// Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth: The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for, Her father keeps from all access of suitors And will not promise her to any man Until the elder sister first be wed. The younger then is free, and not before.
 * PETRUCHIO**
 * (Act 1.2.271-276)**

This is Margret's meeting with the CEO's and they are telling her that they spoke with her immigration lawyer and her working visa has been denied. They are laying her off until they can get her to become legal. Then she suddenly has the idea that the easiest way to keep her job without having to leave at all is to get married. Then to who, of course to the most vulnerable of people, her assistant. Then she tells the CEO's that she is engaged and not to lay her off, so then they tell her to hurry up with it and to "make it legal."



Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherine, in thy bed. And therefore, setting all this chat aside, Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented. That you shall be my wife, your dowry 'greed on, And, will you, nill you, I will marry you. Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn, For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty, Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well, Thou must be married to no man but me. For I am he am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Conformable as other household Kates.
 * PETRUCHIO (Katherine)**
 * (Act 2.1.282-293)**

Petruchio in this part of the play is telling Katherine why she has to marry him, and that it is not even an option nor is it negotiable, she is going to marry him. At this part of the movie Margret and Andrew just walked out of the immigration department and Andrew is negotiating with Margret. One of the parts of the negotiation is that she is to promote him and to publish his book and that she has to ask him to marry her, not demand it. So this is when she then gets down on her knees and proposes.



Why, sir, you know this is your wedding day. First were we sad, fearing you would not come, Now sadder that you come so unprovided. Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate, An eyesore to our solemn festival.
 * BAPTISTA**
 * (Act 3.2.98-102)**

Gammie (Andrew's grandmother) is walking Margret down the isle, because both of her parents are dead and anyway she wants them to get married because throughout the movie she keeps talking about grandchildren, and them sleeping in the same room with the "baby maker" so that they can create some. She also talked Margret into the marriage and discussed her every aspect of it, and instead of encouraging her to go ahead with this wedding it in turn encourages her to come clean with the situation and to just go back to Canada.