The Taming of the Shrew

While reading the play a question was brought to mind: does Katherine have the right to be Shrew-like?Through the Taming of the Shrew many readers have inquired whether is it ever acceptable for a woman to act, bad-tempered, and aggressively assertive, In the case of The Taming of the Shrew Katherine does have the right to be Shrew-like because people treat her like garbage, her sister gets all of the attention, people talk bad about her to her face and behind…

Katherina Minola, also known as Kate, is the daughter of Baptista in Taming of the Shrew. “Shrew” is a term used to describe an aggressively assertive woman. From the beginning, Kate is constantly referred to as “a shrew whom cannot be tamed”. But as the story progresses, Kate’s personality drastically changes when she understands the effects of her actions after her husband, Petruchio, starts acting like her. His mission is to marry Kate and prove his friends wrong when he says that he can tame…

n the classic romantic comedy, Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, we follow Katharina, a rebellious young woman who is not afraid to voice her opinion and is seen as a rude and hateful person. While it is true that Katharina can be rude and push people away, the city of Padua does not know what actually goes on in the household. Throughout the play the focus is on Katharina’s family problems, struggle with marriage, and society norms. The play Taming displays the importance of having…

advocacy of equal rights for both males and females. From a feminist’s perspective The Taming of the Shrew is lacking in the concept of gender equality especially as Kate’s opportunities are decided from her by men from the beginning of the play. Although, it may be argued that Kate’s shrewish attitude is influenced as a response to the overwhelming sense of patriarchy, how at the hands of men she has become a shrew in protest and then again, at the hands of men she is forced into marriage and…

to become more sophisticated which in advance has changed social construction such as gender. William Shakespeare’s was a phenomenal playwright who in the 1600’s wrote historically significant texts such as, ‘Taming of the shrew’, Within Shakespeare’s great plays such as ‘Taming of the shrew’ social constructions were seen through the representations of gender. Gender representations were not only found within historically significant texts such as Shakespeare’s plays but, also in contemporary…

bringing forth both enjoyment for audiences and discussion for literary thinkers, and having been analysed, scrutinised and their very essence explored. This essay will attempt to create a vivid and fascinating exploration of Hamlet and the Taming of the Shrew, for emphasis the purpose of this essay is to traverse in the depiction of Shakespearean women. Chiefly the performance of these female characters on stage whilst using Judith Butler’s Queer theory as a basic theoretical framework. This…

Consequently, for the duration of the play The Taming of The Shrew Katherine’s behavior attributes the struggles of being a victim of problems, in addition Petruchio’s, Bianca’s manipulation remain occurring. Furthermore they are not merely victims of their individual tribulations however their struggles are ones that Katherine is additionally facing which vicissitudes her mannerisms of a feminist. The approach Katherine takes is allowing herself to remain easily influenced by her father, plus…

Female Gender Roles in Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare William Shakespeare paid much attention to different issues connected with gender roles in many of his plays. This essay will focus on the analysis of female gender roles and stereotypes in Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew . It will also explore how these aspects influence the concepts of courtship and marriage and how they stipulate a person’s behavior in the society. The two aforementioned plays…

and to make her into what he saw as the perfect wife. With the taming of the shrew Shakespeare seems to be through the comedy of the play commenting on the woman’s role in Elizabethan England by portraying it to an extreme, he seems to be in a way commenting on the hypocrisy of women being seen as subservient to men even though the country at the time was ruled by a woman. This is first portrayed, as many of The Taming of the Shrews themes are, in the induction as one way in which Shakespeare…

Social Classes In The Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar, roles and social classes are very important. Both plays include strong male rolls that the commoners look up to during the course of the play. Caesar from Julius Caesar and Baptista from The Taming of the Shrew are being compared because they are both high class men that are respected by many. “He would be crowned: How that might change his nature, there’s the question.” Brutus said this about Caesar and a lot of people did feel…