驯悍记

‘为你好’就可以有理由，用技巧打压，洗脑对方吗？莎士比亚四百年前就看清楚了，他写出男人的喜剧也是女人的悲剧的《驯悍记》，结局看似是女人彻底臣服后获得了男人的爱，男人试图将这种关系推广并保持下去。实际上是展示了狡猾冷酷的PUA全过程，如同剧中一句台词:他甚至要主宰太阳。 随着时间的推移，年龄和阅历的增长，越来越理解和认同"不只属于一个时代，而是照临百世——莎士比亚就是这样的戏剧家。"这个评论的精准。 表面上看，这个莎士比亚最具“冒犯性”的剧本《驯悍记》是一个直白的喜剧，全场“笑果”不断的剧场体验，用"以古现今"的方式隐晦且大方，搞笑且冷酷，热热闹闹讲述不仅是男人和女人关系的古老主题。 几个世纪以来，凯特行事彪悍泼辣，她的热情、活力和独立震撼了无数观众，为了让“悍女”成为“贤妻”，丈夫彼特鲁乔打着为你好的名义使出了各种伎俩，最终将凯特改造为了一个绝对服从的完美妻子，但她遭受的羞辱和最终被降服却让女性观众感到困惑和愤怒。 ★★请注意: "驯"是让人不能睡觉，渴着饿着劳累着，没有多余的力气去争取应有的待遇和权力，继而放弃自己，臣服于看似合集合法的规则和权力，这种PUA可以放置在各个时代的各个生存环境关系里，今时今日也是随处可见。 莎士比亚之所以能稳居戏剧家头牌，是他能看得见人心里的黑暗，以及人性的神性。他创造了人物的性格像一朵花，自己从地下生长出来，顺着性格所造的必然的命运。而这些人物的命运在不同的时代和环境里会重现，会变形，会被不同的人用不同的方式理解和领悟。 ★以驯服TA人获得服从和尊重，从未消失; ★以臣服，交出自由作为前提条件获得怜爱和安宁，一直存在; 重要的是: ★具备不被蒙蔽的能力，清楚地知道自己要什么，并愿意为之努力; ★权衡后选择臣服对方获取自己想要的，同时有随时改变主意的能力; ★不惧怕对峙，敢于争取; ★为自己的决定负责。 要相信莎士比亚！

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 where it lies.

Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.

Katherine: In his tongue.

Petruchio: Whose tongue?

Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.

Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

这一段直接在《生活大爆炸》中被莱纳德用来和Raj妹妹Priya在沙发上调情，后者说在剑桥读书时演过驯悍记，莱说自己曾为这个写过作文。

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,

Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,

And for thy maintenance; commits his body

To painful labor, both by sea and land;

To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,

Whilst thou li’st warm at home, secure and safe;

And craves no other tribute at thy hands

But love, fair looks, and true obedience-

Too little payment for so great a debt.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,

Even such a woman oweth to her husband;

And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,

And no obedient to his honest will,

What is she but a foul contending rebel,

And graceless traitor to her loving lord?

I asham’d that women are so simple

‘To offer war where they should kneel for peace,

Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,

When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,

Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,

But that our soft conditions, and our hearts,

Should well agree with our external parts?

最后结尾Kate这段dramatic的演讲太讽刺了，或许就像英剧《新贵/Upstart crow》里说的，至于沙翁本人有没有添加反讽的意味，全靠后人解读了。