Hiding how you really feel hurts in the long run

Comparing “The proposal” to “Taming of the shrew”

In the story Taming of the the Shrew it shows that women can be in denial about or afraid to get married. In taming of the shrew Katherine isn’t married and doesn’t have the urge to like other women. She also isn’t as wanted as much as her sister especially since she’s annoying. In the movie The Proposal The main character Margaret is an awful, annoying, arrogant person. She’s not on anyone's list to date but she ends up marrying her assistant.

Margaret marries her assistant because she needs her visa renewed or else she’ll get deported and lose her high paying editor job in New York. She essentially forces her assistant to marry her. She tells her bosses because they’re the ones that told her she needs her visa renewed or else she would be fired. But She didn’t marry him as planned. The plan was to get married and get divorced soon after.

“Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee tell. Whom thou lov'st best. See thou dissemble not.”

Act 2 scene 1

In this quote katherine reveals her want to get married. In the story taming of the shrew Katherine acts like she doesn’t want to get married. But when she begins to show interest in bianca’s suitors she gets curious and starts to rethink the not getting married idea. So she asks her sister about her suitors but she doesn’t tell her. This makes katherine a little upset and this shows her interest in really wanting to be married.

In the movie The proposal margaret wants people to believe that she’s independent and can make a living for herself.

Andrew’s grandma was having her 94th birthday in their hometown in Alaska. When Margaret takes the trip with Andrew and spends time with Andrew’s family she realized how much she missed having people around her. She began to explain to andrew that she had been alone since she was 16 because her parents died. This was andrew’s first time seeing any emotion other than angry come out of Margret.

“I never saw a better-fashioned gown, More quaint, more pleasing , nor more commendable. Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.”

Act 4 scene 3

In the story taming of the shrew Katherine gets fitted for her wedding gown. She is excited because she had never been fitted for one before. She was astonished how nice it looked and felt. She also brought up the point that it’s this nice because the husband just wanted to have a one up on her. If she were to do something the husband didn’t like he could use that against her in an argument.  

In the movie the proposal margret also gets fitted for her wedding dress.

The grandmother gives margaret her wedding dress to use in the wedding Margret and Andrew are suppose to have. While she’s getting fitted for her dress she begins to tear up because it reminds her that she’s not really getting married. She takes a second to regather herself and after its done she runs out the store. She sees that all the things andrews family is doing for her is too much. She didn’t want the family to hate her when they were suppose to get a divorce soon after.

Both The Taming of the Shrew and The Proposal have things in common about marriage. But they’re portrayed slightly different. The confessions of the main girls actual feeling about marriage is revealed differently but is revealed. In The Taming of the Shrew it’s shown more subtle but in The proposal it’s shown very directly. Both stories show that marriage is important in life but not everyone needs to be married by a certain time and that showing your true feelings is better than keeping them hidden. It will only cause you trouble down the road.