Katherine The Shrew

There has been great criticism on Taming of the Shrew, a play by William Shakespeare. There has been debate over the question if Katherine, one of the main characters, was really a shrew at all or if she was just acting out because of how the people around her treated her. Appearance versus reality is a key theme that is used to explain the change in Kate’s personality. It is said that she is finally tamed by her husband when she gives her final speech at the end of the book. Critics argue that Katherine isn't tamed, she has noticed that to survive with Petruchio, she has to act like everything he says is right. Katherine was responsive to how people treated her, so she isn't a shrew that's tamed she is a woman of her time that is smart

The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era. For all the praises it has garnered throughout the centuries, it is curious to note that many have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. The "taming" of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. George Bernard Shaw himself pressed for its banning during the 19th century. The subservience of Katherine has been labeled as barbaric, antiquated, and generally demeaning. The play centers on her and her lack of suitors. It establishes in the first act her shrewish demeanor and its repercussions on her family. It is only with the introduction of the witty Petruchio as her suitor, that one begins to see an evolution in her character. Through an elaborate charade of humiliating behavior, Petruchio humbles her and by the end

Shakespeare brings us back to the sisters in act II scene 1. This is a

The unfair treatment brought upon Katherine reveals more than just the state of the court, though: it shows the response of a person in the face of injustice. Toward the end of Katherine’s time onstage, her tone and language become more fierce and aggressive, the turning point of this being “Sir, / I am about to weep, but thinking that / We are a queen, or long have dreamed so, certain / The daughter of a king, my drops of tears / I’ll turn to sparks of fire.” (2.4.69-71). When faced with unfair treatment, Katherine becomes enraged and vehemently defends herself, calling attention to

Katherine is known for being that mean old bitter lady , who doesn't seem to get along with anyone , in others she's " the shrew''. In the story "The Taming Of The Shrew" she is the oldest daughter of Baptist Minola and the sister of Bianca. Who want to get married badly to the man of her dreams, Hortensio, but Katherine had to get married first and who knows how long that would be.

She consistently insults and burdens the men she encounters and is notorious for barbaric demonstrations of fury. Although most of the play’s characters think Katherine is just an all-around angry person, it is certainly plausible to think that her unpleasant behavior stems from unhappiness. She may act like a shrew because she is miserable and desperate. There are many reasons why Katherine may act the way she does. For example, she seems to be jealous of how her father spoils Bianca, but her anxiety may also be fueled by the fear that she may never find herself a husband, and she doesn't appreciate the way men treat her. To be more precise, Katherine feels out of place in her society. Due to her intelligence and independence, she is not fit to play the role she is currently forced to play. Also, Katherine must see that given the situation she is in, her only hope to be happy is to find a

In The Taming of the Shrew, before the title character is even introduced, Katherine is presented as a woman of violent temper and speech. The use of unkind language, which she is notorious for, suggests that she has a very strong, sometimes “devilish”, personality (II.2.26). Before she is “tamed”, despite what the other characters may think of her, Katherine’s language doesn’t always show shrew-like behavior. In fact, her aggression successfully conceals her sensitivity. Not many of the other characters are aware of Kate’s sensitive side because it’s so subtly presented through her use of third-person speech, verbal irony, and in her fast-paced dialogue.

Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ evokes 16th Century societal norms, maintaining a focus on Katherina, the termagant woman rejected by society, who encases all characteristics of a shrew. Only after Katherina is married, is her younger, more beautiful sister Bianca permitted, so an elaborate and deceitful plan is designed by Bianca’s suitors to find Katherina a husband. After being undesirably wedded to Petruchio, a strong minded man seeking marriage but above all, wealth, he supresses Katherina into societies idealistic and true ‘Elizabethan’ woman. The primary themes explored in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ are gender roles, in addition to love and marriage. Gender roles refer to expectations of males and females in a typical Elizabethan

After a separation of several centuries, attitudes between the sexes have changed either significantly or rather little in either direction depending on where one resides. In Shakespeare’s time, women were considered little more than property to be exchanged between her father and her possible husband to be. Those women who wish to escape such burdens had little other options. All they had was other disinheritance or the convent. Katherine Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew tried to fight such emotion oppression on her own terms the best way she knew how, by being so feisty and untampered that many men chose to run away from here. It would take another man willing to be paid to attempt to win her so that another can marry her sister

The modern world sees women as either silent or talkative. Silent women are the ones that deserve, in some ways, love and getting married, whilst the ones that talk too much are seen as undesirable and unworthy of marriage. Katherine fits into the second category as she is described as being a wildcat or even as the devil itself. The Taming of the Shrew is a farce and in this subgenre of the comedy, the characters don`t reflect too much but react with the speed of light. The plot moves fast and the characters may become violent at the slightest provocation, such as Petruccio who beats a lot of characters that try to provoke him, but it also lacks consequences. Petruccio never hits Katherine but he does belittle her through emotional mistreatment. As he beats other characters present in the play, in a way, he reminds Katherine of how powerful he actually is without laying a finger on her. Petruccio invites Katherine to play along, allowing her to enter his world. Even if it may seem as a misogynistic play, this is debatable, but the subjugation of the woman isn`t really comedy

In the play The Taming of the shrew by, William Shakespeare, there are a lot of sexist remarks and feminist criticism that comes to affect at the beginning to the end of the play. Its scenario is obtained from the popular " war of the sexes" theme in which males and females are put against one another for dominance in marriage.On the other hand, men had more advantages than women throughout the Elizabethan era.

     Among the bevy of female characters to grace the Shakespearean stage, Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII is perhaps the most enigmatic. Despite the range of possibilities in other female roles-such as Cordelia and Desdemona, in whom one certainly finds desirable traits-Katherine stands out as a tragic heroine: a secure, strong-willed woman who is articulate, passionate, charismatic, and altruistic. The unique qualities of Katherine are achieved through Shakespeare's careful accretion of rhetorical devices in her speeches. Interestingly, however, the paucity of critical attention given to Katherine's language suggests that many scholars have relegated this great lady to secondary

The following paper is an analysis of Katherine and Bianca in Taming of the Shrew. The two sisters have different ideas about marriage and how women should act. Their roles within

In the beginning, a lot of what we learn about Kate comes from what other people say about her. In Act I, she is only seen briefly and she speaks even less, but our picture of Kate is pretty clear. Shakespeare, sets up a teaching lesson, helping us to see the mistakes of our own judgment. When Baptista announces that Kate must marry before Bianca may take suitors, Gremio describes Kate by saying "She's too rough for me" (1.1.55). Later in the scene, Gremio reiterates his

In Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Katherine’s brutally honest, headstrong personality allows Petruchio and others to misinterpret her as a vile and inappropriate candidate for marriage. After Baptista requests a suitor to marry his eldest daughter before Bianca’s courtship, Tranio states that Katherine “is stark mad or a wonderful froward”(I.i.71). Most view Katherine to be an improper and repulsive woman due to her nonconforming views of marriage. Her bitter attitude resignates from Baptista’s forceful attempts at wedlock. Katherine’s insolence comes not by instinct, but rather the unfair expectations of society. Similarly, while Petruchio attempts to seduce Katherine to annex her family’s wealth, he jibes, “Come, come, you wasp… you are