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Lucentio eagerly feels like throwing in a banquet to celebrate the recent marriages of the three men; Petruchio who’s married to Kate, Hortensio to a rich widow and Lucentio to the fair Bianca. When everybody had settled down around the table Petruchio and the old widow engaged in some bantering at Hortensio’s expense. Shortly after, the ever-so-well- known Kate for her hot-temper and sharp tongue joined the conversation. She started arguing with the old widow and soon the argument seemed to end up with violence, but before Kate could express herself by means of physical contact, Bianca interruped and calmed down both parties down and finally brought them to somewhere else. As Bianca and the other two women were leaving the room. Hortensio, Lucentio and Tranio began reprimanding Petruchio, …show more content…
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
Kate was born and brought up an only child. At first Kate was a normal child and no one thought anything of her. When she got a little bit older Kate began to do things other children wouldn't normally do. At one point she was caught in her Barn with two boys and her tied up. Her mother and father punished her for this and whipped her until she was good again. Kate was doing great things, she was doing things that made her look like a perfect child. One day though Kate made a plan to kill her parents by locking them in the house while she sets it on fire. Kate did this and immediately got out of town. This is when Kate made her and ended up with Adam Trask another main character.
When Kate comes around Jenny feels as if Kate is her master and she has to listen to whatever she is told to do. Jenny did not want to hurt Kate’s feeling by not letting her in, this is exactly what Kate told Jenny, “Don’t be such a baby,” (Cabot, 33). Then after Kate responded to Jenny like that she pushed her out the way and just walked in, but at the same time Jenny said, “ I didn’t want to mess up my first babysitting job ever,” (Cabot, 33). This showed that Kate wants Jenny to stop acting so uptight and just loosen a bit. But Jenny knows that there will be consequences if she obeys what she was supposed to do. Jenny had let her guard down by staying quiet and letting Kate just push her out the way.
...etermination. The final scene of the play depicts Petruchio's final test of obedience. Confident in Katherine's level of devotion, he wagers against the two other newlywed husbands, Hortensio and Lucentio. The bet-testing the obedience of their wives-holds very high monetary stakes and important bragging rights. The clear winner turns out to be Kate. Not only is she the only wife to report when beckoned, but she also delivers a lengthy speech outlining the virtue of an obedient wife and the importance of the husband's role as lord and protector when she says:
Katherina rebuts this whining after their father enters, and ends the scene with her own speech in which she argues that
In the beginning, a lot of what we learn about Kate comes from what other people say about her. In Act I, she is only seen briefly and she speaks even less, but our picture of Kate is pretty clear. Shakespeare, sets up a teaching lesson, helping us to see the mistakes of our own judgment. When Baptista announces that Kate must marry before Bianca may take suitors, Gremio describes Kate by saying "She's too rough for me" (1.1.55). Later in the scene, Gremio reiterates his dislike for Kate, claiming she is a "fiend of hell" (88) and offering that "though her father may be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell" (124–126). He finishes by saying that to marry Kate is worse than to "take her dowry with this condition: to be whipped at the high cross every morning" (132–134). Hortensio, too, is quick to add to the situation, calling Kate a devil (66) and claiming that she is not likely to get a husband unless she is "of gentler, milder mold" (60). 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 froward" (69).
Kate never finds out that Petruchio was paid to marry her. Petruchio and Patrick both use deceitful tactics in order to be with their respective loves. They disguise their true feelings and motives for being with their girl. Both Kat and Katherine fall in love with the man who was paid to be with her.
The main characters in the movie are Lilli and Fred. They are a divorced couple who play Katherina and Petruchio. They are a divorced couple who are very unpleasant to each other. The clash on stage as well as off stage. This helps her relate better to her character. In the play, Petruchio is very nice to Katherina before they get married. He tells her that he can put up with her and that he was born to tame her. Once they are married, everything changes. He begins to act very mean, which is ultimately the reason for her change. In the movie, Fred does many things that upset Lilly and make her want to quit the play before the performance is even over. However at he end, Lilli and Fred End up reconciling, as do Katherina and Pertruchio. If watched closely, the viewers can see her pull out a black book from his coat and throw it away. This would be a sign that things may be shifting for them, in their favor. Fred begins treating Lilly very badly before they go ...
Baptista is looking for suitors to marry his daughters and views the marriage as a monetary transaction: "After my death the one half of my lands, and in possession twenty thousand crowns." (2.1 122-123). In this quote, Shakespeare is using the characterization of Baptista to demonstrate how women were viewed as nothing more than objects that could be sold. Baptista told this to Petruchio when he asked how much Kate was worth. In addition, Baptista was attempting to appeal to suitors: "Proceed in practise with my younger daughter; she 's apt to learn and thankful for good turns. Signior Petruchio, will you go with us, or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?" (2.1 165-168). Shakespeare uses Baptista to demonstrate how poorly women were viewed. Baptista is practically selling his daughters and attempting to make them more appealing to suitors, so much as offering to bring Kate to Petruchio. Throughout most of the play, Baptista is looking to marry off his daughters. "Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant 's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart." (2.1 345-346). Shakespeare uses Baptista to demonstrate once again the little value women have and how they are viewed as objects. Baptista is acting as a "merchant" when he is selling his
... between Petruchio and Kate is contrasted with the superficial properness of the relationship of bianca and lucentio.
Marriages in Biblical Tradition typically represent a symbolic expression of the covenantal union between God and his people. A wedding banquet during this time period in history was a joyous occasion that had a great importance in the lives of the betrothed. “The Gospel of Matthew, like all the New Testament Gospels, was composed as a literary work to interpret the theological meaning of a concrete historical event to the people in a particular historical situation” (Boring 89). Mt 22:1-14 utilizes this tradition and expresses wedding celebrations in order to exemplify the significance of Jesus’s goal to bring salvation to those on Earth.
Throughout the presentations, I made a connection with Poncio Vicario at the wedding party. Page 44 in the work describes the old man at the party. “Really, the most intense image that I have always held of that unwelcome Sunday was that of old Poncio Vicario sitting alone of a stool in the center of the yard. They had placed him there thinking perhaps that it was the seat of honor.” When a daughter of a family gets married, the father feels happiness and joy. Contradictory to that, Poncio Vicario is described on the lines of being blind and powerless man, deprived of control and influence.
Adolescence. The instinctive phenomenon that delivers many suspicions and guilty pleasures that haunt the young mind of adolescent until the coming of age. However, the absence of adolescence delivers the vacancy of knowledgeable wings that fly up to moral intelligence. It epitomizes the meager amount of light that provides sight to the step directly in front of one’s self, rather than light radiating upon the rest of the staircase; the unknown world of adulthood. Carlo Collodi, author of The Adventures of Pinocchio, delivers the perfect collaboration of this ethical message on adolescence and an accurate propinquity to the lives of children. Pinocchio, the wooden puppet and nose-growing misfit, becomes easily astray from his morals and encounters many disastrous events. Geppetto, hopeless father of Pinocchio, makes many sacrifices for Pinocchio, but Pinocchio displays the natural attribute of an adolescent which is self-centeredness. This particular behavior of the adolescent Pinocchio, stimulates him into pleasurable temptation and carefree fun. Colloid’s characterization, epic symbolism, metaphysical aspects, and an immense deal of archetypes all introduce the portrayal of proto-adulthood, structured education versus individualism, and humanity growing out of foolishness. Collodi succeeds in pointing out that disobedience and pleasure-seeking behavior lead to evil and unhappiness. Thereon the natural attribute of adolescence, narcissism, must be outgrown to avoid the declivity to corruptive integrity. Overall, Collodi rehashes the emblematic lesson of child obedience by approaching it in a metaphysical manner: children need proper guidance to avoid egocentricity and live in proto- adulthood.
Hortensio goes through the process with many other suitors to try and get Bianca’s hand in marriage. Despite, Bianca developing feelings for Lucentio, she pays no attention to Hortensio that he eventually gives up. He proclaims his defeat by moving on to someone else saying, “I will be married to a wealthy widow / Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me” (4.2. 37, 38). The widow and Hortensio are both in desperate need of someone to accompany them, which brings them together because they both can not find someone else.
Lucentio who is a master treats his servant Tranio with respect. Tranio’s and Lucentio’s relationship was not the traditional master servant relationship. Tranio despite obeying his master, and being subject to his will, had a friendship with his master. Similarly, to the other two relationships, Tranio and Lucentio’s relationship was forbidden. The relationship between Lucentio and Tranio was viewed as unusual because masters did not treat servants as friends. Lucentio regarded Tranio as his friend or as his relative. Lucentio notes, “Tranio, since for the great desire I had To see fair Padua, nursery of arts, I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy, And by my father’s love and leave am armed With his good will and thy good company. My trusty servant well approved in all” (Shakespeare 1.1.9). In this quote, Lucentio expresses his love and happiness for Triano. Lucentio conveys his gratitude to Tranio for being his servant and a friend. Traino notes, “Mi perdonato gentle master mine. I am in all affected as yourself, Glad that you thus continue your resolve To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Only, good master, while we do admire This virtue, and this moral discipline, Let’s be no stoics, nor no stocks I pray, Or so devote to Aristotle’s checks As Ovid” (Shakespeare 1.1.25). In this quote, Traino expresses altruism towards Lucentio calling him a gentle, kind man. Tranino saw Lucentio beyond his servant and treated him as a person. Lucentio was willing to trade places with Tranio in order to persuade Bianca to marry him, seen in this quote, “For I have it full. We have not yet been seen in any house, Nor can we be distinguished by our faces, For man or master. Then it follows thus: Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead, Keep house, and port, and servants, as I should” (Shakespeare 1.1.195). The
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