Anyone Can Fall in Love

Comparing the play “Taming of the shrew” to the movie “Crazy, stupid, love”

As “The taming of the shrew” proves that a man can tame a women, and be with her not because he loves her, but because he wants what she has. In “Shrew” there isn’t real love between Petruchio and Kate he only wants to control and use her. In the 2011 movie “Crazy, Stupid, Love” the main character used to do the same but to every woman he came across. He used women all his life to get what he desired, but when he meets this one girl, he wants to change his ways and only be with one girl.

Though Petruchio and Jacob share the same ambitions in their life and both kept things from the people they were in a relationship with, their stories turned out to be quite different. In “Shrew” the Petruchio didn’t really care for Kate after they got to know each other. He just wanted one thing which was money. By contrast, in the movie “Crazy, stupid, love” despite his past ways, Jacob really cared about the Hannah and didn’t just want to use her for what she had. These two similar but different situations have occurred throughout many years. This shows how society hasn’t really changed over the years, people from this century still do things in relationships that were done hundreds of years ago. These texts reflect that it is acceptable for there to be lies and deception in a relationship without it ever being known as long as there is love somewhere in the relationship. But sometimes what might seem like true love can be disguised as something it’s not.

“Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth; But that our soft conditions and our hearts; Should well agree with our external parts?”

(Act V, Scene ii, Line 2673-75)

In this quote, Kate is giving a heartfelt speech to Petruchio in front of everybody at their wedding ceremony. She’s telling everyone what a wife should do for her husband. Petruchio now knows he has tamed her into following his every command. Knowing that Kate has fallen for him, he still only in it for the money, not her feelings.

The guy she met at the bar is now laying in bed with her, laughing and talking about their life’s. It’s not what she expected but she is slowly but surely falling for him.

In this scene from “Crazy, Stupid, Love”, Hannah decides to go home with the guy Jacob she met at the bar a couple of days ago. When she first met him, she had no intentions of getting to know him, but when she saw him again, she changed her mind. When they got there, they were both expecting to just have sex with each other, but what she expected never happened. “quote..” Unlike Petruchio who just wanted money from Kate, Jacob wanted more than just sex. As the night went on, he realized he wanted to know more about this girl he picked up from the bar. Even though things start to get serious between them, he failed to tell her about his past life.

“And for that dowry, I'll assure her of

Her widowhood, be it that she survive me”

(Act II, Scene i, Line 966-67)

In this quote, Petruchio is saying that Kate’s money will be the reason why he is going to marry her. He is only worried about his survival. He doesn’t care about anything else but the money her family owns. But Kate has no idea that he’s just trying to marry her for the money.

Jacob realizes that Kate could be someone he wants to spend the rest of his life with, even though he hasn’t told her that he was once a womanizer.

In this scene from “Crazy, Stupid, Love”, Jacob realizes that we wants to move further along with Kate in their relationship. Things started to get serious between them, but he still has a secret that he hasn’t told her. He doesn't plan on telling her but towards the end of the movie it comes up in a very strange and awkward way. This contrasts to “Shrew” because Petruchio continues on into marriage with Kate without telling  how he really feels. But in “Crazy Stupid, Love”  though it wasn’t Jacob’s plan to tell Kate, she still found out from someone else and continued to be with him despite his past ways. Deception can happen in any relationship and the truth may not even come to the light.

Today’s society is not much different from 30 about years ago. They are actually quite similar as shown in the play “The taming of the shrew” and the 2011 movie “Crazy, Stupid, Love”. People think that it’s ok to lie and kept secrets in relationships and marriages. Society hasn’t changed much from 30 years because every relationship or marriage has some kind of deception in it. In the future, society will most likely be the same as it has always been.

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