Taming Of The Shrew By William Shakespeare Essay

I must and will have Katherine to my wife. (Act 2, Scene 1, Page 13)

The Taming of the Shrew, written by William Shakespeare, is historical proof that flirting and temptation, relating to the opposite sex, has been around since the earliest of times. Because males and females continue to interact, the complications in this play remain as relevant and humorous today as they did to Elizabethan audiences. This is a very fun play, full of comedy and sexual remarks. It's lasting impression imprints itself into the minds of its readers, for it is an unforgettable story of sex, flirting, and happiness. The Taming of the Shrew remains as relevant today because of its relation to the age-old story of the battle of the sexes and dynamics of marriage, as well as the woman's struggle with both of these.

“When love speaks the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony,” Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, scene II.

A comedic story can be summed up as one thing; a hero who triumphs over evil and wins the day. In these tales, our main character encounters around one hardship and overcomes it with much ease. The ancient Greek playwrights had a similar view on comedic tales: in order for something to be a comedy, the main character must reach a positive outcome. So no matter what comes their way, our hero will be in a better spot than he was at the beginning. Well-known comedies include A Midsummer Night 's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Cyrano de Bergerac. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew, the main character achieves their goal with few hardships. Yet, in Cyrano de Bergerac, our main character’s ambitions are never

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’.

Petruchio is a good guy in The Taming of the Shrew. He is a good guy because he is just trying to get Katherine to become better of a person, not all naggy and moody. What’s going on in his head is that he is going to tame her no matter what and he takes it as a challenge to his taming ability. In (II.i.207-214)(p.s.

Marriage In the book “At first sight” written by Nicholas Spark, he declared “...marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it”(1). In modern times, couples are allowed to be in relationship without being married.

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is an interesting story that demonstrates the patriarchal ideas of how a marriage is suppose to be according to society, what is acceptable of a woman's role in a relationship. It's a story that has many things to show for it's been remade, and remade, even slightly altered to better relate to the teenage audience.

The relationships between servants and masters closely reflect the gender relationships in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio and Tranio's relationship as master and servant is an ideal of the Renaissance era according to "An Homily on the State of Matrimony." Tranio risks taking the place of his master because of his love for him and Lucentio always treats him with kindness and respect, almost like an equal. Though they are not involved romantically, Lucentio and Tranio fulfill these ideals better than any marriage in The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio's relationship with Bianca reflects his role with Tranio: Bianca shows respect for Lucentio as he

   William Shakespeare's comedy, The Taming of the Shrew illistrates the difficulty of trying to tame a headstrong, stubborn, and a high-spirited woman so that she will make a docile wife. The one attempting to tame Kate, the shrew, is Petruchio. They contend with each other with tremendous vitality and have a forced relationship. In contrast, there is another romantically linked couple who seemingly possess an ideal relationship. These young lovers, Bianca and Lucentio, share a love that is not grounded in reality, but in fantasy. These two sub-plot characters are stock characters and Shakespeare creates the irony of the play through the differences between the two couples. It

The topic of transformation is focused on throughout Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and can be developed into the themes of as time goes on people change, people are influenced to change, and force can cause change in others. Shakespeare’s characters experience transformation throughout the play and therefore create the related themes, these changes and transitions are an important part of life, this concept of change can be seen throughout our world today.

According to Ramsey-Kurz, “His taming of Katherine can be read accordingly as an endeavour to induce Katherine to do like him and act naturally rather than being natural,” (270). In other words, instead of acting based on natural instincts and emotions, act in a way or create a deception that fits within the role you have been placed into by society. Ramsey-Kurz goes on to explain how through Petruchio demonstrating the purpose of deception, Katherine can create a new role for herself. In this new role, she is not held back by the attitudes of others towards her socially unacceptable behavior (270). Without being restrained by her behavior, Katherine can obtain power from new sources, such as the respect of others.

In Shakespeare's comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare has a woman as one of the story's main characters. Katherine Minola (Kate) is off the wall, and kinda crazy. Because of her actions, the “male centered world” around her doesn't know what to do with her.

One of the most notorious topics of interest in the works of Shakespeare is the role women receive in his plays. The way Shakespeare wrote his plays, women were very submissive to men and had no will and choice of their own. Women were extremely reliant upon the men in their lives, believing that they were inferior and thus following their desire for the women’s lives. This included that marriages were usually arranged by a powerful male, instead of giving the woman the opportunity of choosing marriage for love. It is not surprising that Shakespeare portrayed women in a way that was familiar to him and the time era in which he lived. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew, both focus on the development of love and not, with

For the group performance of “The taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare that my group, made up of Echo Mendiguren-Dalton, Shannon McGarry, Elias Skora, and Katie Calder, did, we chose Act 2 Scene 1. For props we used a walking stick, a bright green tutu, a purple fedora, a paper mustache, four old red books, a rubber duck, a cardboard guitar, a background done with whiteboard markers, a wooden dagger, and a scarf. I was responsible for the walking stick, the tutu, the fedora, the rubber duck, and the cardboard used to make the guitar. I bought the tutu, and got the cardboard from work, but the rest of the items I was already in possession of. We met outside of class twice to practice the scenes and to organize ourselves to the actions we would be performing, and to also create the guitar and mustache.