The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare's play "The taming of the Shrew" is a comedy that presents a complicated relationship between two genders. The events of the play are mainly about two major characters: Katherina and Petruchio. Throughout the play, the first dialogue starts between these two characters, and through it, the reader witnesses a scene full of several elements such as imagery and metaphors, and the most predominant element in the dialogue is animal metaphors. Each metaphor holds behind it more…

conforming one. According to Sloan, “The couple exits triumphantly, leaving disagreement as to how to interpret their performance. Has Petruchio, as Hortensio insists, ‘tamed a curst shrew?’ Lucentio's skeptical retort, "'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so" (5.2.193), suggests that Katherine's "taming,"...is but an act.” (Sloan). Katherine’s speech does leave the characters that listened in suspension on whether or not she has actually changed or whether it was all an act. If her…

I consider Othello to be a tragic hero because throughout the play he demonstrates heroic characteristics. For example, Othello is appointed as a general in the Venetian army and dispatched to Cyprus by the Duke of Venice to fight the Ottomans (Bevington, 2014): Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you Against the general enemy Ottoman. (Shakespeare, 1604, 1.3.50-51) Furthermore, Othello demonstrates heroic characteristic because even though at certain times his actions were wrong…

The skills I need to work on are grammar, spelling, and finding quotations to support my claims. The piece that best illustrate my less-developed aspects of my writing is the The Economics Of Marriage for suitors, fathers, and women essay for Taming of the Shrew. In this essay even with revisions it was one of my rougher essays. This is because the base for the essay was problematic and had a lot of work that needed to be done. Next year I would like to still work on my skills in expository…

chastity, obedience, and submission are among some of the most prized virtues in women. If a woman did not have those virtues, she would not be sought after by men, and in some cases would be scorned and ridiculed (as seen with Kate in The Taming of the Shrew). Much Ado About Nothing highlights chastity, obedience, and submission in Hero and Beatrice and what happens when they ‘violate’ those virtues. Without a doubt, the better husband turns out to be the one that can overlook that ‘breach’ in…

Literary Analysis In a romantics society, we are immersed in many forms of poetry and dramatics that truly depict a scene of non-rewarded love. In Shakespeare's Taming of The Shrew, Petruchio and Katherine are at a stand off for love that could not be returned. As well as, Les Miserables, Eponine is madly in love with Marius but this could not be returned due to his undying affection for Cosette. In dramatic works, love and sex often carry little ties to one another creating an overtone of…

influenced by her lover Petruchio, otherwise known as Patrick through both play and movie. Although how much she changed really depended on the cultural norm in the time, which finding evidence for isn’t hard. For example In the play she went from shrew to loyal wife, yet in the movie it only seems like she had opened up to Patrick, while…

Baptista is a reputable father to Kate and Bianca; he truly wants the best for both of his daughters. Baptista tries to resolve conflicts involving his daughters, and wants the best for them financially and emotionally. Like any caring father, Baptista hates to see his children fight. When he caught Bianca and Kate in a quarrel, he intervened by saying, “Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl, she weeps! Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her. For shame, though hilding of a devilish spirit!” ( Act II,…

herself be tamed. She knew the drain she was on her family and she wanted to prove her loyalty by biting the bullet and saying I do. If a woman has no value to her family, she is ultimately a failure according to Korda. To start, in The Taming of The Shrew, Kate was a shrew in the first place because she felt her family didn’t appreciate her. She is always being compared to her more attractive…

William Shakespeare lived in the late 1500’s, around the turn of the century. In his time, he was widely known and respected; but he was also an enigma. Who was this man and how did he create what he did? People questioned everything about him: his sexuality, his appearance, religious beliefs, even if he wrote his writings or stole them from others. Despite all these mysteries, there’s no doubt that he had a part in shaping the world--but how? Shakespeare had both a positive and negative…