Pertuchio Tamed Kate In Taming Of The Shrew

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Have you ever wished that someone could be exactly the way you want them to be? Pertruchio tamed Kate in a short amount of time by doing a few simple things. He didn’t feed her and deprived her of sleep until he had her right under his thumb. You'll later read ways that we knew she was tamed. In the book, Taming of the Shrew, Pertuchio succeeded by getting the double dowry, he had Kate saying whatever he wanted her to, and he had officially tamed her the way he wanted.
In the beginning, Pertuchio had starved her and deprived her of sleep, and it broke Kate down and he built her back up the way he wanted. She wasn’t responding as well at first, but then she listened to everything he said. He won the double dowry by winning the bet of which

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