Lucas Baines British Literature Mrs. Dean 23 April 2018 Compare and Contrast Kate and Bianca William Shakespeare is a well-known English playwright and poet who has written many different plays and sonnets. He was considered a celebrity in his time because of the plays that he wrote and directed when they were performed in The Globe. He wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories. Comedies were plays that ended with two characters getting married. Tragedies were plays where the main character gets killed. Histories told stories about the lives of kings and other famous people. His work is still very well-known in today’s society because it is still being taught in schools even though Shakespeare has been dead for a long time. He also influenced …show more content…
This play is not one of Shakespeare’s famous plays that everyone has heard of but it is an interesting play to read. In “The Taming of The Shrew” there is a lot of stuff that goes on throughout the whole play. The characters dress up and pretend to be other characters in the play. This makes it confusing to follow along with the play while the reader reads it, but that is what makes it so intriguing to read. They also manipulate people and change the way they act in this play. Shakespeare uses this play so people get the idea that things are not always what they seem. This play is one of Shakespeare’s better plays because it is different than others. This is because it has a play within the plot of it. This play starts off with an induction where a drunken beggar named Christopher Sly is tricked by a lord into making him think that he is a wealthy nobleman who has been in insanity for the past fifteen years. He then introduces him to his “wife” who is actually the lord’s servant dressed up as a woman. A group of actors visit the lord’s house to act out a play for them. This play, “The Taming of The Shrew”, is presented to Sly and is the same play that makes up the main story for the …show more content…
Kate and Bianca both cause the main contrast in the play because they are nothing alike and they fight over their father’s attention throughout the whole play. The two girls end up getting married in the play. Not only do they both get married, but their marriages change both of them and make them two different people than they were before they were married at the beginning of the play. Petruchio married Kate and said he would make her into an ideal wife. He did this by being cruel to Kate and forcing her to obey him and not giving her any choices about anything. She eventually became an ideal wife to Petruchio because she couldn’t take the suffering any longer. At Bianca’s wedding celebration at the end of the play, Kate gives a huge speech about how she has changed her ways and learned to obey her husband. Then she goes on to talk about how all women need to learn to obey and serve their husbands. Bianca marries Lucentio and becomes a disobedient wife to him. She becomes the actual shrew at the end of the play because she refuses to come to Lucentio when he calls her into the room. Both Bianca and Kate are manipulated at the end of the play and change their ways because of their
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
Katherine Minola is a character who is pivotal to the progression of the exposition in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The dynamic Kate faces everything from being unsolicited and undesirable by men, being forced into marriage, and falling in love with someone who undoubtedly mistreats her from the beginning. Being tossed and thrown from one end of the spectrum to the other allows room for drastic change in attitude, values, and behavior. There is much evidence of a revolution of character in Baptista’s daughter and Petruchio’s wife, Katherine. Reader’s can follow the transformation of an untamable shrew of society to a well loved and respectable woman figure of the upper class.
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 Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It is both a witty and complex play with characters that are appealing and believable drawn from life and based on a keen understanding of human nature. One can see this in the main character of the play, the shrew Katherine. The reasons for Kate's shrewd behavior as well as her tameness have puzzled Critics and Shakespearean scholars for ages. This essay will attempt to decipher Kate's shrewish character from the beginning with her father and sister, through the middle with her first meeting of Petruchio, to the finale where she is finally tamed.
The manifestation of sibling rivalry first begins in Act I Scene I. The major problem of TS is presented: Kate must be married before Bianca can be courted. This is a major problem because Kate has no suitors due to of her shrewish personality. Baptista, the father of Bianca and Kate, publically humiliates Katherine by discussing
All the character deception in The Taming of the Shrew creates dramatic irony. Dramatic irony involves the reader/audience knowing something about what’s happening in the plot, about which the character(s) has/have no knowledge. Dramatic irony can be used in comedic plays, such as this one to engage the reader/audience. Throughout the play, characters are may be oblivious to recognising the truth, however, the reader/audience can sympathise with this character because the reader/audience knows the true motives of the circumstance. The characters mentioned earlier create examples of dramatic irony. Lucentio disguises himself as Cambio; Bianca’s Latin Tutor, little does Bianca or Baptista (Bianca and Katherine’s father) know about
Most people know of at least of one shrew in their life. Yet they may not realize that their maybe more shrews in their lives that they think there are. In the book “taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare is about trying to tame Katherina, the shrew, to be able to wed Bianca. Although Katerina is the main shrew, she’s not the only one. Many can say that Bianca and Petruchio are as well.
Taming of The Shrew is one of Shakespeare's controversial playwrights. If the Taming of the Shrew (Globe) was to a specific intended audience, it’s primary focus is women. Sexism toward women on how they need be “Tamed” and how they’re “Shrews”. It has 5 scenes and I’m simply awe-inspired. Out of all 3 movies I expected more from the spinoffs. The Globe production is the closest to the Taming of The Shrew you’ll get. Even with the words “Shrew” and “Taming”, Shakespeare displayed how women are bad tempered and need not to be made such a recalcitrant kind of being. The Shakespeare’s Retold Taming of The Shrew adaptation was excellent. It is a modern projection of just the way one could conceivably imagine it today; a car, a mansion, a pool,
Equality can be defined as the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. In the famous play, ‘The Taming of The Shrew’, by William Shakespeare, women are not treated fairly or equally. Men have more power over them and are far more superior to them. However comparing the act to my personal experience and to historical events like slavery, one can realize that equality is not an easy opportunity to be given to someone or something. There will always be something in your way.
In William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, it is an epic battle of the sexes. In the era that this play was written (Elizabethan), women were told what to do, how to act, and who to be. That is why Katherine is such a fascinating yet confusing character in this play. In this piece, the protagonist Kate is very complex and has many different, unique sides to her personality, which is frowned upon in this time. Before Katherine even spoke in this play she was this horrible, shrewish girl. When introduced to Katherine at the beginning of the play she is a smart mouth girl with a horrible temper. She is not afraid to freely express herself which often leads to her being very outspoken or violent. After meeting her husband (that only wanted to wed her because of the dowry he would receive) those characteristics begin to change. It is only then that we start to see a much softer, pleasant side to Kate. It is Petruchio who provokes her slow, but sincere transformation. She becomes more “tame” as some would say and without a doubt, Katherine goes through a very large attitude change. At the end of the play, Kate’s friends and family are appalled by her miraculous change. They believe that Petruchio is the reason for this. And although Petruchio did go through many obstacles to tame Kate, it was love that truly tamed her.
On the The Taming of the Shrew’s very surface, it is seen as a misogynistic attempt to enforce gender roles and stereotypes by showcasing the transformation of a fiery, free-spirited woman to a silenced, subjugated wife. The play revolves around the two protagonists, Katharina and Petruchio, as the pair battle over psychological domination. The residents of Padua perceive Kate as a devious and hateful woman towards the beginning of the play, earning her the seemingly well appropriate title of a “shrew”. Evidence of her unkindly disposition is seen in 1.1.69-71 by Tranio and Lucentio, two men new to the area, as they observe a scene unfold from afar. Tranio refers to Kate as “stark mad, or wonderful froward,”
Have the modern adaptations of ‘Taming of the Shrew’ and other works of Shakespeare proved that Shakespeare still has a place in modern society? William Shakespeare, a name renowned all across the world, despite being gone for 450 years, Shakespeare still has an important and relevant place in our modern world. Shakespeare's plays and other pieces of his work are widely celebrated around the world and Shakespeare especially has a very important place in modern english literature, he is a legend for many writers, poets and modern society. His relevance remains in schools and everyday lives from a young age. Shakespeare also has influences on modern way of speaking, perspective and modern entertainment.
Several themes are developed throughout the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. The beginning of the play starts with a male character named Luchentsio whom wishes to marry a girl named Bianca. This creates a controversy for the following reasons. Bianca's dad Baptista claims her older sister Kate must be married first, and Bianca all ready has two potential husbands. A male character named Petruchio enters the story, and forces Kate into marriage. This makes matters a lot easier for Luchensio. Once married Petruchio attempts to tame Kate hinting the name the Taming of the shrew. Petruchio tortures Kate in order to make her behavior more mild. Meanwhile, Bianca gets married to Luchensio. Many themes are developed throughout the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare,
The Taming of the Shrew was a play created by Shakespeare to entertain the average person. It is old, outdated and demonstrates unacceptable social behaviours which have been eradicated in our modern society. 10 Things I Hate About You is a contemporary interpretation of the outdated play and is distinctively different in a positive way. Stated below are some differences in the two texts and will convince you to watch the movie.
William Shakespeare was a very talented man known for his various works of literature. His works include poems, plays, and sonnets. His works are then broken down into tragedies, comedies, and histories. Shakespeare left this world centuries ago, but his writings continue to live throughout the world today. He has greatly impacted the world of literature and his existence will forever be remembered.