All+is+Fair+In+Love+and+War

// **__All is Fair in Love and War__** __By: Katherine Roman Stream: Fire__

I am going to be focusing on honesty and deception in relationships and i want to "zoom in" a little on the difference in Male ideas on courtship/dating and Female ideas on courtship/dating. The name of my movie is "27 Dresses" in the "Shrew" Lucentio does all in his power to obtain and marry Bianca no matter what he had to do [lie; deceive ] and he succeeds in doing so. In the 2008 movie "27 Dresses" The main character [Jane] has been a brides mate 27 times; has been secretly madly in love with her boss, when [Jane's] sister comes to spend the week [Jane] ends up having to plan a wedding for her sister and the love of her life [the sister lies to her fiance about everything about herself.], after succeeding in ruining the marriage only to figure out she was in love with someone else. A statement I can make about "Taming of the Shrew" that relates to my focus area is honesty and deception: because Lucentio lies and deceives to marry Bianca. And Petruchio is persistent to marry Katherine. In "27 Dresses" the sister of the main character lies about her lifestyle and who she is so that she can fit the ideal woman for The Boss. And the main characters "Petruchio" is persistent to be around her [jane] to eventually be with her. Both the play "Taming of the Shrew" and the movie "27 Dresses" compare because there is a "Bianca" character and a "katherine" and "suitors". And lies and deception have to be involved in order to be accepted or to be "romantically" involved with the other person. In "The Taming of The Shrew" there is a reiterated scene that seems to take place whenever romantic "love" is involved; and it's that one has to lie and deceive, or not tell the full truth in order to win the heart, or to obtain the person. As we know Luchentio lie's and deceives everyone, in order to Win and wed Bianca. Lying about who he is and who his family is in order to be "good enough" for Bianca and her family. And Petruchio is persistent and forceful to marry Katherine. The interesting aspect of the difference in the the play and in the movie, is how the genders are flipped in the movie that woman are looking for love and the man, rather than men looking for woman.

"The play tends to explore romantic relationships from a social perspective, addressing the institutions of courtship and marriage rather than the inner passions of lovers. Lucentio wins Bianca’s heart, but he is given permission to marry her only after he is able to convince Baptista that he is fabulously rich. So, if Hortensio offered more money, he would have married Bianca, regardless of whether she loved Lucentio."

Quote 1: "Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves, And let me be a slave,t' achive that maid Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye " (Act 1. Sc, 1 (45) I n this quote Lucentio has just seen Bianca and has fallen in "love" with her. He is telling his servant Trainio about how he found love and how he must have her. And they come up with a scheme So that Lucentio can pretend to be Bianca's School teacher so that he could woo her and be closer to her. In this scene of "27 dresses" little sister Tess [picture on top] lies to the man she is going to marry who is also the secret lover of her olderer sister jane. [picture on the bottom] Now jane is telling Tess to tell the Boss [groom] the truth about herself or she will. The sister later confess to Jane after the Wedding got canceled that when the boss found out the truth about Tess, ""I just wantedo be someone he wanted, someone who deserved him, someone he could respect " Like Lucentio, Tess wanted to be someone "good enough" for the person they wanted [Bianca] Both Tess and Lucentio end up not marring the people they lie and deceive[Bianca and Boss], but they end up being with them. I also think it's interesting that in this movie like lots of "romantic love" films the gender character is flipped for who is searching for love. It's not the man going after the girl for her beauty or money or love it's the insecure; needy woman pretending to be something that she is not to win the man she thinks being herself won't deserve. I think it represents how people in america think about woman, or themselves, or at least what seems to be the majority.

__**Quote 2:**__ // //" ...you shall be my wife. your dowry' greed on', And, will you, nill you, I will marry you."

( Act 2. Sc.1 (5)//  //In this quote Petruchio is following Katherine around while Katherine is trying to avoid him and make him go away. He tells her that he will marry her and that she needs to stop being so "angry" and not to be so "waspish". She then comes back with remark. In this quote there is determination and persistence for Petruchio to get what he wants.//  //In this scene of the Movie, Jane and kevin go out for a drink after Kevin's persistence finally pay's off so that Jane will actually meet with him. Shortly before this scene Kevin call's Jane and Jane responds saying, "// //Can you please find somebody else to be creepy with?" witch then he reluctantly say's "no" too. while at the bar they have a short conversation about love and marriage:

"""" Jane:You write the most beautiful things. Do you actually believe in love and marriage and just pretend to be a cynic or are you actually a cynic who knows how to spin romantic crap for girls like me?//

//Kevin: I didn't follow that at all, but I think the second one, the spinning crap one.


 * Jane: I think you should just admit that you're a big softy, that this whole cynical thing is just an act so that you can seem wounded and mysterious and sexy... """"

I think it's interesting to hear the conversation they have about what Kevin actually belies but when it comes to the moment of truth he blows it off and gives her a short thoughtless answer. It is interesting to me that kevin is// //Petruchio in the sense that he is persistent and determined to get what he wants; and will eventually get it; but he is also in a sense like Katherine in the begging of the book where she doesn't believe in love or marriage; but ends up married anyways.//

// http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/themes.html
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