My Fake Relationship
My Fake Relationship An analysation and comparison of The Taming of the Shrew and My Fake Fiance
"Petruchio: O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?
Katherine: Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp! I’faith you are too angry
Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting
Petruchio: My remedy is then to pluck it out
Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies"
(Act 2, Scene 1, Line 220-225)
Jenn and Vince at the Wedding
“ Jennifer: No, I mean there's no such thing as soulmates
Vince: So you sleep around?
Jennifer: Sorry, I’m not your type
Vince: I don’t have a type, what makes you think I have a type?
Jennifer: Please, have you ever heard the phrase ‘the clothes make the man’”
"Petruchio: Then tell me, if I get your daughter’s love, what dowry shall I have with her to wife?
Baptista: After my death, the one half of my lands, and in possession, twenty thousand crowns"
Jenns mom begging to pay for the wedding
“Vince: Wait a minute, aren't the bride's parents supposed to pay?
Jennifer: No way. We are not asking my parents to pay for our fake wedding.”
"Hortensio: Petruchio, since we are stepped thus far in, I will continue that I broached in jest. I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife with wealth enough, and young and beauteous, brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman. Her only fault, and that is faults enough,
Is that she is intolerable curst, and shrewd, and froward, so beyond all measure that, were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
Petruchio: Hortensio, peace. Thou know’st not gold’s effect. Tell me her father’s name, and ’tis enough; for I will board her, though she chide as loud as thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.”(Act 1, Scene 2, Line 84-97)
In this section of the play Petruchio is explaining to Hortensio that he wants to marry rich. Hortensio jokes that he knows that Katherine needs to get married but that he wouldn’t marry her. Petruchio finishes off by telling Hortensio that he does not know the power of money and that he would marry anyone. In that time it was more acceptable for men to be in marriage with a submissive wife and money. It further helped the claim that marriage is just a deal and that it is alright to not want love out of it. Petruchio male place in society made it more acceptable for him to be deceitful in marriage. This is different from the scene in My Fake Fiance where Jennifer puts everything that she wants on the wedding registry because that is all she is in it for.
Jenn making the wedding registry
“ Sales Associate: Oh, I couldn't help but notice. You know there’s an easier way to do that. Everything is computerized these days, so just choose what you want, aim the gun at the barcode and pull the trigger. It's a lot of fun.
Jennifer: Wow this is fun
Sales Associate: Here you go. Well you know what they say? It pays to get married.”
Jennifer is now able to go off of the mantra “ It pays to get married” because her and Vince have established that that is all the want. Also because of the new a progressive nature of time Jennifer was not shamed for being honest about all the material items that she wanted out of marriage. Her friends and family even made it a reality when the bought her these items.
The reality about marriage is that is not all about love. It is a deal between two people whether they are in love or not where the both receive something out of it. Petruchio wanted money. Katherine wanted to be worth something in the eyes of society. Vince wanted to pay off his gambling debt and Jennifer wanted to refurbish her house. All marriage contains ulterior motives but in the beginning it was only acceptable for men to have them. Now the objects that people want in marriage have become for transparent and acceptable for both partners to want, especially women.
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