[naswanji]

Petruchio in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."

The heroine Katherine is sucked up to by beta suitors and is miserable, then Petruchio comes along and through unyielding frame control finally gets her to submit, so much so that she admits that she will even deny the sun is the sun and the moon is the moon if he tells her so:

And be it the moon, or sun, or what you please;
And if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me
...
But sun it is not, when you say it is not,
And the moon changes even as your mind:
What you will have it named, even that it is,
And so it shall be so for Katherine.

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And of course once she submits to an alpha male, she is finally happy. Shakespeare knew what was up.