Gender In The Taming Of The Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a controversial play that arouses a debate over if Katherine being truly tamed or not. A man named Petruchio marries Katherine, who is dubbed a shrew because she gets easily rankled by people. When Petruchio first meets. It was crucial for her to be tamed because she isn’t what a wife actually is at that specific time period. He tames her to enhance her personality. Katherine tells what a true wife is at her sister’s wedding banquet. His job becomes easier Katherine gets at what he’s doing. Katherine remains untamed throughout the story. Katherine proves her mettle by not being tamed. She also does what he wishes to in order get what she wants. This play reveals that Katherine has not been
Katherine is saying this to please Petruchio in front of everyone. This shocked the people because they think that she is changed. She knew the game Petruchio was playing on her and she decided to follow along with it. From Rachel De Watcher’s Power and gender in The Taming of the Shrew, she explains how Petruchio's taming was successful or not. She goes on to talk about how that her closing speech is strangely cold and generalized. “But this very coldness puts the success of Petruchio’s taming into question. Perhaps Katherine is merely saying what she knows he wants to hear for a quiet life?”(3). Katherine’s speech was in fact cold, but it seemed that Katherine only said this because she didn’t want trouble with Petruchio. Katherine makes her speech really believable and nice so Petruchio is pleased. In William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Katherine is being tamed by Petruchio, her husband, but he fails to successfully tame her because Katherine does not succumb to his taming. Petruchio tames her like it’s a game. Katherine gets that it’s a game and she decides to follow along with it. She also has to say things to make Petruchio pleased. This play reveals that Katherine was not tamed after