The Taming of the Shrew

nice.” This excerpt compliments of Saturday Night Live shows how prevalent sexism still is to this day. In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, women are admired for their beauty as opposed to their personality. The primal instincts of animals show that symmetry is pleasing to the eye for establishing a mate. The suitors in this play do…

Petruchio’s Taming the Shrew Man and women live together in perfect unison, if one is completely oblivious. Throughout history, the two have been at odds with one another. Of course, much has happened to cause such rivalries,but historically, women do get the short end of the stick. Thus, the Feminist literary lens was born. Focusing on the struggle of women against men and other social prejudices is the focus of this lens. Negative views usually denote the horrid treatment of women and vice…

The similarities between “Ten Things I Hate About You” and The Taming of a Shrew are quite profound. It was not difficult to see which character represented which, and you could definitely see the plot of the play as it played out through the much modernized movie. However, there were many differences that must be pointed out. Let us begin with the most obvious difference… the time. While it was very interesting to see the play, set in the middle ages of Italy, transferred to a modern U.S. city…

Shakespeare’s representations of women in Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew are still highly relevant in our present context despite society and technological development. The societal expectation for women to marry before a certain age is reflected in Beatrice, Hero as well as Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew this coincides with the repeating motif of a women’s value being based on her marital status and virginity. This is still evident in our present society where…

William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew showcases how he is a literary genius, providing the reader with an entertaining story that has two plots interwoven together. The frame story is a vital aspect of The Taming of the Shrew, and is worth critics and filmmakers’ attention. The themes illusion and disguise are established within the frame story and then Shakespeare uses these established themes to build his inner frame. The inner frame is capable of standing on its own, as the audience…

The Reason for Marriage in the 1500s In The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, marriage is considered to be an institution used for economic gain. Nowhere is this more evident than when Petruchio comes into town looking for a wife. In Act 1 scene 2, Petruchio says: “If thou know one rich enough to be Petruchio’s wife, as wealth is burden of my wooing dance, be she as foul as was Florentius' love”(I.ii.68-70). Petruchio says that he will marry any woman rich enough to be his wife because money…

restricted the ideologies, freedoms, and rights of women. In his dramatic comedy The Taming of the Shrew, the renowned playwright, William Shakespeare, reflects many of the conflicts between genders and the specific societal roles that they play. Similarly, in the modern literary criticisms, Civilizing Subordination: Domestic Violence…

Shakespeare’s play Taming of The Shrew features two sisters on their journey to find husbands. These two sisters, Katherine and Bianca, are very different in many ways, while at the same time they have many things in common. Most of their similarities and differences are noticeable in the way they treat others. The sisters treat their father very differently and they treat one another very differently but the clearest of all is the way they treat their husbands. In Taming of The Shrew by William…

Millsaps’s version of taming of The Taming of the Shrew was definitely a strange interpretation of the play. The actors were all in 70’s attire and the language was much different than that of Shakespeare’s. The over all mode of the play was fun and playful, but I do not think that truly captured what Shakespeare was trying to convey. Although the actors captured their characters perfectly, it was hard for me to understand them. Over all, the play was somewhat enjoyable. The 70’s twist on…

In 1606, when Shakespeare completed Macbeth, women’s opinions and advice were taken seriously, and satirical writing about how frivolous women were was common in the writing of the time, even in Shakespeare’s other play. The Taming of the Shrew, for example, is entirely about an uppity woman being put in her place by a good man, and any Shakespearean play with a strong female character offering useful advice either ends with her death in the tragedies or subdued in marriage in the comedies.…