The story of The Taming of the Shrew is one that raises important issues both in the Shakespearean text and in the modern appropriation 10 Things I Hate About You. How does each composer’s use of this story reflect the time in which each was composed" The Taming of the Shrew was written in the Elizabethan Era in England at a time when men were considered to be superior to women. The patriarchal society of this time is reflected to a large extent in the text and various implications of traditional
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The Variations of Katherina Mignola One might wonder if always standing out is a good trait to attain. Katherina Mignola is that kind of person in many situations. Katherina is a very feisty‚ hot-tempered‚ and quick witted individual. Her obnoxious over the top behavior often captures the attention of all the people around her‚ most of the time not in the most positive manner. Katherina’s looks and personality are portrayed differently in each version of the Taming of The Shrew we’ve been exposed
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of the sexes. Kate and Petruchio have a struggle of wills to decide who has the power in their marriage. In this battle‚ Petruchio ends up winning the battle‚ and Kate ends up tamed. Petruchio set up an elaborate plan to tame his shrewish wife‚ and through various schemes‚ he turns Kate from a temperamental shrew‚ into an obedient wife. Petruchio carries out a predetermined‚ intricate strategy to suppress Kate’s ill humor and to win this power struggle. Initially‚ Petruchio demonstrates the effort
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Petruchio asserts the opposite of how Katharina is perceived by the other characters in the play. When speaking to her father‚ Petruchio states that Katharina is "not froward‚ but modest as the dove. / She is not hot‚ but temperate as the morn" (Shakespeare 2.1‚ 286-7). There is no apparent change in Katharina’s attitude and nothing she has done validates his assertion that she is now sweet and "temperate" (Shakespeare 2.1‚ 287). Petruchio is creating a reality using nothing
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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
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v=xaebQOnnHMU) * Petruchio was a little scared of Katherina when he first met her * Katherina was a lot more harsh‚ physically * Instead of dialogue with words‚ they made Petruchio speak and Katherina act with facial expressions and basically actions. Petruchio: You lie in faith. For you are called Kate. Plain Kate. Bonny Kate. And sometimes Kate the curst.
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helps to develop themes‚ such as power and dehumanization. Secondly‚ animal imagery effectively develops relationships throughout the play‚ including those between Katherina and Petruchio‚ as well as Lucentio and Tranio. Thirdly‚ character development is influenced by animal imagery‚ as shown through the characters Petruchio‚ Sly and Bianca. Thus‚ Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew definitively progresses the development of theme‚ relationships and character through the use of animal imagery
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verbally attack Petruchio. Katherine fires back in reponse to Petruchio’s sexist comments with retorts such as “Asses are made to bear‚ and so are you” (2.1.199). Here‚ Katherine is directly calling Petruchio a beast of burden that has little to no intellect. In this time period‚ women were treated like mules‚ so with her tongue‚ Katherine is foreshadowing that Petruchio is the one in the relationship that is to be tamed. Katherine continues to make her point by calling Petruchio a buzzard and a
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Gender roles have normally been dominated by men‚ with women unwillingly submitting to them. In William Shakespeare’s‚ The Taming of the Shrew‚ this idea is presented with the characters Kate and Petruchio. Kate brings about a new attitude of women becoming dominant that is not accepted by Petruchio or the rest of society. Without any support to help her‚ Kate is unable to keep her own character and conforms to be an obedient wife. In the play Taming of the Shrew‚ Shakespeare uses the character
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Breaking Katherine Into Submission Imagine a woman who is publicly insulted. Abusive‚ outspoken and bitter‚ she is shunned from society for going against her prescribed social role. Her only option is to change; she must submit completely to men‚ accept her inferior role‚ and relinquish her opinion if it contradicts her husband’s. William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew illustrates the consequences brought on women who went against their social roles and suggests that women must be submissive
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