Taming Of A Shrew

Boose then moves on to the actual punishments of shrews in early modern England. She explains that during this time there was civil disorder and “strained gender relations” that ended with what some people would call “witch hunts” (184). This is interesting because it was more likely that a woman would get into trouble for mouthing off rather than committing sexual misconduct. The most popular form of punishment was public dunking in a public horse-wash pond (185). The woman charged with the offense would be attached to a “cucking stool”, paraded through the town square and then dunked in a dirty pond where people would wash their horses. Boose points out the line in 1.1.55 when Grumio declares that instead of courting Kate, a man should

In The Taming of the Shrew, the concept of love is a means of emotional manipulation, and manipulation is nothing more than a means of control between men and women. William Shakespeare critiques the patriarchal social structure by ironically employing the manipulative stance Petruchio takes towards winning Katherine as his wife by charming her with words and manipulating her psychologically, and then taming her after their marriage through legal, physical, financial, and psychological control and manipulation. Though Petruchio may think he yields power over his wife, Katherine uses obedience as a tool of manipulation and has the control of the household, as can be seen

As Katharina beings her speech she tells how being a shrew is “In no sense meet or amiable.” (5.2.6).This implies that she thinks differently on being a woman who speaks her mind. She continues to say that being

Women in the era of Queen Elizabeth I were often portrayed through stereotypes such as, “The Good and the Badde” by Nicholas Breton. In this work women have desired traits such as loyalty, obedience, and innocence. Undesirable traits would be just the opposite, disobedience, raunchiness, treachery, loudness, and being outspoken. The play, “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, plays heavily to these stereotypes with the two female main characters; Bianca and Kate. Whereas Kate plays the Un-quiet one in the beginning, but transitions to more of a quiet one or the good wife while Bianca plays The Virgin.

Another clear example of character deception in The Taming of the Shrew is Petruchio’s deception of Katherine. Petruchio pretends that he loves Katherine so much, that he cannot allow her to eat his inferior food or sleep in his poorly made bed; all in the name of ‘love’. “That bate and beat will not be obedient. She eat no meat today, not none shall eat; last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not,” (Act IV Scene I The Taming of the Shrew). The motive for Petruchio’s deception of Katherine is that he wishes to tame her. Katherine is the ‘shrew’ of the play and has needed to be tamed-not through violence or words; but by actions of ‘love’.

Her only escape is her own mind which has now betrayed her. Due to her lack of name, it could be inferred that she is also speaking for women as a whole population. In this time period, women were very much beneath the husbands and were usually kept away in their homes, devoting themselves to the care of children and the household. This idea is perpetuated when she sees more and more women as her insanity

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is similar to the romantic comedy 10 Things I Hate About You in numerous ways. For example, the main character of 10 Things I Hate About You, Katarina, is an outspoken feminist, and the main character of The Taming of the Shrew, Katherine, is a headstrong, stubborn shrew. Additionally, these characters have a beautiful and desired little

Her most discernible feature is the fact that she has been married five times. In those marriages, she admits that the husbands she preferred were the ones that were rich and old. Using intimacy, or the lack of it, as her power, her husbands would give her what she wanted (usually money) to satisfy his need for intimacy. Within these marriages, she falls into the stereotype of greedy and manipulative. Her marriages were for the money and she would receive more money when she decided to be creative and tease or guilt-trip them. However, just because she uses her sexual lifestyle to earn more money, does not make her lustful. Instead, it makes her cunning because she understands what she needs to do to make men dance to her tune and she makes it her strength. She becomes a master at using sex as a bargaining tool and is proud of it. The societal niceties of her era that say the amount of marriages she has and how she manipulates her significant other is disgraceful, but she is not ashamed of it. She is more than a pretty face and a stereotype. She is a proud woman and with the desire to live a comfy lifestyle, she stays unwavering to the slander she must face. Her character is brought to life written in between the lines. Behind her obvious characteristics holds depths and reasoning a real person could empathize

In the play taming of the shrew and 10 things I hate about you, I believe relationships are shown differently because in 10 things I hate about you relationships are shown through just dating out of fun/ love instead of in taming of the shrew where it was about money and kind of an agreement with the father and no choice for the women. This is seen in the relationships of Katherine and Petruchio. The difference between the relationship of Katherine and Petruchio in the play Taming Of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You. We recently read the play Taming Of The Shrew where we met characters like Katherine and Petruchio who were getting married and petruchio was basically in the relationship for her money.

For example, Kate and Kat were similar as they were both opinionated and intelligent individuals who lived by their own moralities and didn’t care what anyone else thought of them. Bianca in both texts is seen as the ‘object of desire' because of her submissive manner and attractiveness. As for the modernised characterisation in 10 Things I Hate about You, the production period was post third wave feminism; a period where a sudden realisation was discovered about which girl was preferable in a man’s eye. It reminded us that the shallow, attractive, ignorant girls are loved, while the independent girls with strong personalities are seen as irrational and bad-tempered beings. Kat in 10 Things I Hate About You and Kate in the Taming of the Shrew were often ridiculed for their headstrong manners, whereas, Patrick and Petruchio were admired for their ‘appropriate’ masculinity and their ability to tame the

She uses what the men want to get what she wants. She yells and cries for help, pretending to be in danger, to get the men to come after her. She, as in the author uses interesting diction. For example, words such as “squadrons”, (5). She also sets a magical type tone with phrases including “picturesque and mythical”, (15) and “fatal and valuable”, (18).

Sharp-tongued, ill-mannered, and foul-tempered, Katherine is known throughout Padua as the shrew of the town. She is constantly demeaning and insulting the people around her. Most people believe she is inherently cold and cruel, but the reality is that her unpleasant behavior masks an inner unhappiness. She feels she is too intelligent to assume the role of the helpless maiden, and resents that society expects that from her. She does not know how to properly gain the attention she craves, so she puts on the hideous persona of the stereotypical bitch. The more people dislike her, the angrier and more violent she becomes, which only serves to make people dislike her more. Katherine longs for the attention that her younger sister Bianca receives,

Lying and deception is used in The Taming of the Shrews as a way for the characters to get into romantic relationships, and manipulate their partners. For instance, Lucentio is indicated by Tranio, his servant, to pass off as “the schoolmaster/ And undertake the teaching of the maid”(1.1.197-198). Lucentio decides that deceiving Bianca is his best chance at a romantic relationship with her. Deception and changing one’s identity is shown to be a method at obtaining women. Likewise, many characters resort to lying as a way to control, or “tame” their partners. Petruchio lies to Katherina about what is real and what is not as a way to confuse her and ultimately ends up controlling her. Shakespeare portrays lying as more of a tool that is used to manipulate others, rather than an action.

My role for the creation of this project was sound mixer. I contributed to the storyline and was a primary actress. A timeless theme we explored was manipulation. In The Taming of the Shrew women were expected to be subservient figures, and since Katherine was incapable of conforming to these requirements unlike her sister Bianca, she was manipulated into doing so.

The Taming of the Shrew protrays a motif of disguise that is established when Tranio readily agrees to disguise himself as Lucentio because "so well [he loves] Lucentio. " This is likely the only admittance of love in the play that isn't made out of greed. Lucentio and Tranio's relationship is pure and mutually beneficial as opposed to the heterosexual romances seen that are based on convenience and wealth. Tranio's disguise as Lucentio also suggests an alternate reality in which Lucentio doesn't feel obligated to marry a woman and focused on his studies alongside Tranio. Maybe the one of them who is truly wearing a disguise is Lucentio, feigning an interest in Bianca only to appease the narrative society has pushed him into.