Taming Of The Shrew Essay

Many of Shakespeare’s work show how the treatment of women in their time was unfair. In the classic play written by William Shakespeare “The Taming of the Shrew” it is no different. The topic of the unfair treatment of women starts with two of the main female characters Kate and Bianca Minola the daughters to the man named Baptista Minola. The two main female characters have very dynamic personalities, for example Kate is a tight, open, uncaring, rude, and insensitive person, but as the story progressed Kate started changing become more of a wife obeying, and incentive. While Bianca on the other hand started off as a charming, sweet, loving, and sensible person, but as the story moved on she became more of a disobedient and mean person who didn’t listen to her husband. These women were treated like animals, their weddings were more of business transactions, and they were to force to obey and serve their husbands as they were lords.

The way women were treated were as though they were animals, an example would be this line from Tranio, one of Bianca’s suitors “Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master, that teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long, to tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue” (4.2 56-58) one may think that the “Training School” could be a comparison of today’s modern taming school used to train pets tricks, to teach dogs how to listen well to their masters and to do tricks. Another quote from the text, could be Petruchio’s speech “Thus have I politically begun my reign, and ‘tis my hope to end successfully. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, another way I have to man my haggard, to make her come and know her keeper’s call, That is, to watch her, as we watch t...

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...io. At the end of the wedding transaction, the money is usually given to the father, so in the end the father would have chosen the best offer of them all, Tranio.

The way women were treated, as animals, forced to obey and listen to every command their husbands had to say, and how their weddings were treated like business transactions. Women were treated terribly in the Elizabethan times. In the play it shows how badly and terrible there were treated, many of them do. This also shows his the personalities of character changes at different times and environments, becoming more obeying or disobeying a master, but everything has gotten better since then, and one may agree that how women are treated now is immensely better than the way they were treated before.

Works Cited

Shakespeare, William, and Roma Gill. The Taming of the Shrew. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. Print.