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
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew as well as its adaptation 10 Things I Hate About You by Gil Junger, represent their respective ideas on love which shares its similarities and differences, both portraying love in their own forms. Both texts highlight the ideals of love in their context as well as one of the main courtships, Katharina and Petruchio, involved in love, portraying their values of love. The transformation of love within context shapes Katharina’s personality in Taming of the Shrew. Kate’s
In Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew, the main character, Katharina Minola is portrayed as a shrew. Her behavior emanated from the fact that a father who treated her with indifference raised her and there was a lack of a motherly influence in her life. “Shakespeare sketches her character with a depth the typical shrew lacks” (“The Taming and Comic Tradition” 1) so her behavior is a defense mechanism used to protect herself from rejection. Katharina “is aggressive and belligerent, but
Gender Essentialism: Katherine 's Transformation in William Shakespeare 's Taming Of The Shrew Feminist and cultural historians have convincingly demonstrated that "rebellious women" were a concern for englishmen during the late sixteenth centuries (Detmer 273). The idea of “taming” a women is one that men can find useful, though women can also benefit from. Katherine cynically conforms to expectation, and in doing so displays how The Taming of the Shrew is a critique on gender essentialism. The
In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, it focuses on two sisters who must get married however, the oldest must get married first. Here, Shakespeare presents to the audience, Katharina Minola. Katharina is portrayed as an outspoken and stubborn woman. In the play, Kate cannot find a husband because of her aggressive personality, the men speak negatively about her and believe she is not a fit woman to marry. Although, in the play it may seem like Kate will never find a husband
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Taming of the Shrew the themes explored in the various plays and consequently emphasized and iterated by the plays within plays are clearly depicted. The themes transpire thanks to plot devices and dialogues between characters. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream the themes of love constrained by society and of death are hinted in Act I, Scene I, in a dialogue between Egeus, Hermia’s father, and Theseus, duke of Athens, “she [Hermia] will not here before your grace
The play commences with a prank. Men take hold of a beggar, named Christopher Sly and dress him up in fancy apparel. The beggar is then transported to the residence of a nobleman, where he is attended by servants. The nobleman and his court convince the beggar