Character Traits In Taming Of The Shrew

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An event, choice, and mistake can mold a person into someone who is new and improved or it can change a person for the worse. William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew is a play written inside a play, which takes place in Padua, Italy during the Renaissance. Baptista is the father of the older, shrewish Katherine Minola and the younger, obedient Bianca Minola. A rich man, Lucentio, arrives in the great city of Padua and falls in love with Bianca. Before winning Bianca 's heart a devil of a man must marry the older sister Katherine. Petruchio, a wealthy bachelor takes on the challenge of marrying and taming the shrewish woman, Katherine. Katherine is defined as a shrew because she is a bad-tempered, aggressive, unpleasant, devil-like, and argumentative woman, fulfilling the true definition of a shrew. Characters Petruchio and Bianca can also fulfill the definition of a shrew through their own actions. Shakespeare’s title of the play not only leaves questions of who the true shrew is, but what a shrew is. In the play Petruchio, Katherine, and Bianca can either transform into people of obedience, who are well mannered, or they can change into a person whom is shrewish and deceptive, but the character Bianca becomes the true deceptive shrew. Not only does the title leave Daughters, Katherine and Bianca become married to their husbands, Petruchio and Lucentio. This turn of events bring out who Petruchio, Katherine, and Bianca really are, what they really desire. These events also determine who the true bad-tempered, aggressive, unpleasant, devil-like, and argumentative person is out of the characters Petruchio, Katherine and Bianca. Taming of the Shrew not only leaves questions of which the true shrew is but what is a shrew. Characters Petruchio and Katherine transform into people of obedience, whom are well mannered, but the character Bianca changes into a person whom is shrewish and deceptive in the

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