Abuse is the cruel and violent treatment of a person or animal. In the book The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio is abusive to Kate as he takes her; Petruchio starves Kate, Petruchio takes Kate’s dress for her sister’s wedding away from her and forces her to wear rags, and Kate is forced to call a grown man a girl. One of the ways that Petruchio is abusive to Kate is how he starves her. When they arrive at home for dinner and Petruchio see the food and he says, “‘I tell thee, Kate 'twas burnt and dried away,/ And I expressly am forbid to touch it [...] And for this night we fast.’” (Shakespeare 4.1.170-177) This is showing that Petruchio will not let her eat that night. The next way that Petruchio abuses Kate is by taking her dress for her sister’s wedding and making her wear rags to the wedding. The tailor has a beautiful dress made for Kate, when Petruchio sees it he criticizes it and ruins the dress. When Kate starts to tell him to stop Petruchio replies by saying, “‘Well, come, my Kate, We will unto your father’s, Even in these honest mean habiliments. Our …show more content…
Kate and Petruchio are traveling on a road on the way to the house of Kate’s father. Petruchio sees a man and to test Kate's obedience he pretends he is a young girl and says to Kate “‘Sweet, Kate, embrace her for her beauty’s sake.’” (Shakespeare 4.5.38) Kate replies by praise the grown man for “her” beauty. Petruchio shames Kate by stating, ‘“Why, how now, Kate? I hope thou are not mad! This is a man [...] and not a maiden.’” Abuse can be interpreted in many ways, Kate however was definitely abused as she is being tamed. Kate was not able to eat anything because Petruchio would not let her, Kate's sister Bianca is having a wedding and Kate is forced to wear rags, and lastly when Petruchio sees a man he forces Kate to proclaim that the man is a
Kate is in a rage, and Petruchio is so clever-witted that he turns all her insults into sexual innuendos before finally having her forced into marrying him, but what makes this laughter thoughtful? From Kate’s lashes, you are able to truly see just how vulgar and unhappy she is. She is wild, but she is also quite clever in her quick responses. On the opposite end, Petruchio’s character is shown. He is quick-witted as well, yet more crude. He takes joy in dishing out his “attacks” whereas Katherine becomes even more enraged. He’s finally determined to make her his wife, no matter
After a couple of seconds, every person present was petrified, filled with disbelief when they noticed Kate standing in the middle of the dining room in front of the dining table. Everybody was surprised except for Petruchio who felt yet sceptical about the situation. Therefore, Petruchio was going to put Katherina onto the test once again. Petruchio sends Kate back to get the other wives, and seconds later she has got two women standing aside her. Upon return, Petruchio tells Kate that he dislikes her hat and to throw it on the ground. Bianca and the old widow both looked wide-eyed at Kate who obeyed at once. The preplexity on the Bianca’s and the old widow’s faces, increased even further when she gave, at Petruchio’s inquiry, a speech about how a wife should behave. After she had finished her speech and left everybody gobsmacked in the room. Petruchio permitted himself the luxury of a smile filled with amazement and insane joy. He walked towards her and said: ‘’Kiss me Kate.’’ The other men admitted their defeat completely leaving Petruchio victorious. As Kate and Petruchio went to bed, it left the two men to wonder at the miraculous change of
Tranio, Lucentio's servant, is perhaps the only man in this scene not to talk ugly about Kate, claiming she is either "stark mad or wonderful forward" (69). In Act II, Kate comes in, dragging Bianca with her tied up. When first reading this, the thought of one sister tying up the other and dragging her is pretty funny. But when you stop thinking about why Kate is doing this to her sister, you start feeling sorry for her. We see the immaturity of Kate and that she does not know how to deal with her feelings and instead of using words, she uses her physical actions....
In this marriage Katherine has no power. She is verbally abused by Petruchio and denied what she needs. As said in the article,“ Kate is transformed after enduring the irrational world of Petruchio 's country house, where she is denied food, sleep, and fashionable accoutrements of her social class” (Karen 263). Katherine is tamed and she praises and respects him now that she is tamed. At the end of the play, when Katherine and Petruchio are at the wedding, Katherine is the only woman out of all at the wedding that actually listens to her husband when they all call their wives. Katherine ends up giving them a speech and telling them to respect their husband: “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head thy sovereign, one that cares for thee And for thy maintenance commits his body” (Shakespear V. ii . 162-164). She respects who he is and all the work that he does for her. Petruchio has the power in marriage because she respects him and his
Petruchio tames Katharina on several occasions. The first taming scene is during Petruchio and Katharina's wedding. Petruchio shows up in "a new hat and an old jerkin; a pair of old breeche...
The plot of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew revolves mainly around the story of the fiery, seemingly untameable Katherine and her suitor Petruchio’s efforts to turn her into the perfect wife. Petruchio’s domestication tactics include forcing the “devil’s wife” into marriage, publicly humiliating her at said wedding by kissing her against her will, depriving her of food and sleep, and inundating her with lewd comments. Even before Petruchio meets Kate – as he insists on calling her – servant Grumio implies that his master intends to use sexual force to overpower her: “He will throw a figure in her face and so disfigure her with it…” (1.2.115) At after her cruel ordeal, Katherine, whose independence used to be an immutable part
Much responsibility lies with readers, actors, and directors. Remember, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Katharina and Petruchio are both victims of their social situations, their passions, and their egos, and by Kate’s final speech, it is clear that she doesn't really believe what she's saying – she's just telling Petruchio what he wants to hear. The final speech, then, can be seen as an extension of Kate's newfound ability to "role-play," or act. Katherine’s motivations for giving this speech (fear, exasperation, amusement) and whether or not Kate derives any power in her new relationship with Petruchio
Hamlet is one of the most controversial characters from all of the Shakespeare’s play. His character is strong and complicated, but his jealousy is what conduces him to hate women. He sees them as weak, frail, and untrustworthy. He treats Ophelia, the women he loves, unfair and with cruelty. Similarly, he blames his mother for marrying her dead husband’s brother, who is now the King of Denmark. Hamlet’s treatment for women stems from his mother’s impulsive marriage to his uncle who he hates and Ophelia choosing her father’s advice over him.
"Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them." -Oscar Wilde. This quote embodies the fight over gender roles and the views of women in society. Taming of the Shrew deals with Kate and Bianca, two sisters who are at the time to he married off. However, suitors who seek Bianca as a wife have to wait for her sister to be married first. Kate is seen as a shrew because she is strong willed and unlike most women of the time. In his 1603 play The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare enforces traditional gender roles and demonstrates how little say women had in society. He accomplishes this through the strong personality of Kate, Baptista 's attitude towards his daughters as transactions, and
She is not underscored by her subservience to petruchio in public, for "the sun breaks through the darkest cloud" and so do Katherine’s assets, though the public facade of subordination to her husband.
...and in A Shrew, tames Katherine by treating her like a crazy wild animal. For instance, he offers her meat impaled on the point of his dagger. This is something that Shakespeare's Petruchio would never have done. For even though Petruccio uses animal references to refer to Kate, he still even admits to trying to "kill a wife with kindness" (4.1.189).
Petruchio could possibly just be trying to get his woman the best food possible, or in the case of his wedding, the best tailored clothes for Kate. Petruchio brings in a tailor for his wedding, and when the dress doesn’t live up to his expectations, he lets the tailor know (IV.iii.113-121) “O monstrous arrogance!... that thou hast marred her gown.” Petruchio cares so much about getting everything for his wife to be perfect that he does not let one thing fall out of line for his wedding preparations. These things could be taken as sexist acts; however they were just acts... ...
“What goes around, comes around,” is a famous saying that states that everything a person does will eventually come back to them. This is true when observing the relations between people. When one person acts kindly to another, the other party usually acts in a similar fashion; like talking to a mirror. This also works the other way around when mistreating someone, they're inclined to the same. An example of this quote is shown in William Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew. Katherine Minola terrorizes the people of Padua which in turn, is terrorized by Petruchio for her actions. Kate deserves firm discipline because she needs it in more ways than one. Kate is not a regular person and normal ways of communicating with her will not work; she is much like a stubborn child. For her sake and the rest of Padua, Petuchio's actions is for the better because the way her abusive means of communication were unacceptable. Lastly, unbeknownst to most people, the taming she received brought her a blessing in the end which justifies Petruchio's actions.
This depiction of Petruchio conforms to Shakespeare’s technique of using false realities, in order to create humour. This can also be seen in the false identity that Petruchio puts forth in his quest for dominion over Kate (that of the eccentric egomaniac). However, these false realities are not enough by themselves, as the audience has nothing to go by but what they see before them, and so they are not to know that this is not Petruchio’s true personality, and so Shakespeare employs another essential element of humour: he lets the audience know what is truly transpiring, while the characters themselves remain oblivious to the truth. He does this using a soliloquy, in which Petruchio states the strategies he shall use in order to tame Kate:
Petruchio, a nobleman from Verona, is interested in Katherina, to whom it seems as a task to tame her. By reacting fundamentally cruder than Katherina and repaying her doubly for what she says or does, he enforces in a quite short time the marriage with her. To which he not only comes late but also in ragged clothes. He also takes her immediately after the ceremony with him to his country house, where he has her go without food and sleep. By spoiling everything for Katherina, Petruchio achieves that she gives in everything, even that she leaves it to him if the sun or the moon shines.