Taming Of The Shrew Women's Legacy

In this generation, most women are not afraid to stand their ground, wear what they want, and marry the men they want to. This is all because of one big legacy that changed women rights forever, The Women’s Rights Movement. This changed women’s everyday thoughts, it changed the way women looked at themselves in the mirror. Every single lady from all over America took a stand against men saying, “Enough! Enough! You ignorant men!” Although, before the time of The Women’s Rights Movement, during the time that, The Taming of the Shrew, was written women didn’t stand up for themselves. Women didn’t decide what they were going to wear or what they were going to do on a day-to-day basis. Women were not allowed to just marry whomever they wanted to. They listened to men, like dolls, robots, constantly doing whatever men wanted them to do. In this play, The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare shows how women were known only as men’s possessions.
Furthermore, in the play, The Taming of the Shrew, Katherina wasn’t allowed to stand her ground to her husband, Petruchio. On Katherina and Petruchio’s wedding day, as Katherina is trying …show more content…
Petruchio wanted the very “best” for his wife. He mentions that the meat they were about to eat was far to done, “And I’m telling you it was burnt and dried out. I’m not allowed to eat overcooked meat. It gives me indigestion and that makes me irritable. Very, very irritable. Better for us to go hungry, since we’re both hotheaded, than for us to eat meat that’s been cooked too long.” (Shakespeare 4. 1. 8). The bed she was supposed to sleep in had something wrong with it, and the beautiful gown and hat she was supposed to wear to her father’s house weren’t good enough for Petruchio. This left Katherina hungry, tired, and wearing the poorest garments. Katherina was so embarrassed but that didn’t bother Petruchio at