View Full Version : Who Tamed Who?
Unregistered
04-17-2003, 01:00 AM
In a way, Petruchio was tames as well. After marrying Katherina, he would have to settle down and finish his traveling days.
Unregistered
07-27-2003, 01:00 AM
it is really important to examine the way in which kate is played before stating that she is tamed. perhaps she is infact decieving him to her passiveness, her final speech can be read with huge amounts of irony and contradiction. research the tamer tamed, a play written some years after the taming of the shrew, not actually by shakespeare, but none the less it offers an interesting opinion of 'what happened next' . try and find a feminist reading too. good luck with your essay
Hayley
07-27-2003, 01:00 AM
well, there is pne quote in the soliloquy at the end of the play, Kate says <br><br>And place your hands below your husband's foot:<br><br>This means she will be completely submissive.<br><br>Hope that helps,<br>Hayley
Petruchio, I believe, is more tamed than Kate is. If you recall he is first in it for the money, and Kate knows this and I think that is why she is so rebelious, but in the end- LOVE CONQURES ALL- right?<br><br>Kate turns from feeling alone and rebelious to love while Petruchio has to turn away from greed to feel this love- so who is more tamed?? and who is the shrew?? <br><br>This is why Shakespear has stayed around so long, these questions and different inturpritations keep him alive.
I think the last thing that Kate says in the play, u know, the thing about it is a wifes duty to love her husband and do right by him....(she says that to her sister)really shows that Kate has been tamed.<br><br><br>Hope it helps,<br> BRAT
Andrew
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I have just got done reading the play write, and I'm not the greatest Shakepeare reader, anyway I would like to know who tamed who? I know Kate was tamed by Petruchio, but does anybody have any good quotes that percisly shows it, or are there other examples or people being tamed?
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