In William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew men are portrayed as powerful but in an ironic actuality they are controlled by their emotions and the situations they are put in. The characters Christopher Sly and Baptista verify this with their lack of jurisdiction and feelings. Christopher Sly exposes how men are at a loss of power when they cannot control themselves or when their passion overwhelms their sense of thought. Shakespeare demonstrates irony when he writes “‘Am I a lord, and have I such a lady?... And once again a pot o’ the smallest ale’”(21). The idea that Sly believes that he is a lord once there is mention that he has a wife shows that he was not in control. He was only thinking about what he wanted and not what
