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Taming Of The Shrew Inside Essay, Research Paper

Despite the fact that Shakespeare is mostly known for its tragedian playwrights,

yet, in The Taming Of The Shrew, he once again proves that he is capable to

write anything even comedy. The Taming Of The Shrew is a play within a play.

However, the play takes place towards the end of the 16th century. Most of the

comedy scenes are shifted from the city to the country and back to the city.

Therefore, most of the scenes took place in the city of Padua, Italy.

Christopher Sly is a drunken tinker who appears in the induction of the play.

Nevertheless, he is fooled by a lord stating that he is a lord and has been mad

for fifteen years. Therefore, there is a play that is to be performed to the

drunker. In the play there are two main characters and other minor

personalities. As one of the main characters, Katherine is called a shrew, even

by her father Baptista, but Katherine has a deeper character than what she seems

to appear. Katherine’s reactions are due to the preferences that her father

resembles between her and her sister. However, as a consequence to her fathers’

preference she is hurt and seeks for revenge. It is an immature response, but

the only one she knows, and it serves for her dual purpose of her hurt and

revenge. The transformation that she undergoes near the end of the play is not

one of character, but one of attitude. She alters dramatically from the bitter

accursed shrew to the obedient and happy wife when she discover that her husband

loves her enough to attempt to change her for her own good, as well for his. The

other main character is Pretruchio her husband. On the surface he appears to be

a rough, noisy, and insensitive, one who cares nothing for Katherine’s feelings

so long as she has money. Yet, in the inside Petruchio’s intention is not

interested for her money but the challenge of capturing her because of the

reputation that she has. Like a secondary character is Katherine’s sister Bianca.

Apparently in her gentle behavior, she is an unkind sister and through the play

she is in fact a disobedient wife. She fosters her father’s attitude of

favoritism for herself and dislike for Katherine by playing the part of a whole

victim. As another secondary character, there is Lucentio. He is a wealthy man

devoted to Bianca for obscure reasons. He marries Bianca after going through

many difficult tasks in order for them to get married. They are perhaps a

typical pair of immature lovers; they think only of themselves, and each

considers his individual wishes before those of his beloved. Baptista is the

father of Katherine and Bianca. He is the harried father, having difficulty

marrying his two daughters because one of them is a shrew. He is not, an object

of sympathy, since Katherine is a shrew because of his treatment of her. He

ignores the question of his daughters’ happiness in seeking mates for them. He

wishes, in the case of Bianca, to make a good bargain and obtain the highest

possible financial, concessions from the suitors and, in Katherine’s case,

simply to get rid of a problem child. A minor character is Vincention. He is the

father Lucentio. He is extremely fond of his son and finds himself in grief when

he discovers that his son may have been harmed. He has a bad temper and he

displays a worse anger when he finds out that Tranio has tricked him. Hortensio

is a suitor of Bianca. He is basically a good man, but perhaps foolish.

Throughout the play he declares his real identity to Petruchio and later he

discovers that Bianca and Lucentio have been having a romance between them.

Gremio, he is called a pantaloon and is characterized as such. As elderly

gentleman, he seeks the hand of a young girl. Grumio, Petruchio’s servant; he is

a comic servant who provides several humor scenes. Finally, Tranio, he

originally adopts Lucentio’s position with some of reluctance, but he displays

an increasing enthusiasm for the role as the play progresses, until he is

denounced as fake by Vincentio. In the play there is a plot and subplot. In

order for Bianca to get married her sister Katherine has to get married first.

The plot consists of Petruchio arriving from the country with his servant,

Grumio, intending to find himself a wife. He visits his old friend Hortensio,

who jokingly suggest that he marry Katherine. Petruchio declares that her

fortune is enough for him, regardless of her personality. Petruchio announces

himself to Baptista as a suitor of Katherine and holds a stormy, private

interview with the young lady, after which he sets a wedding date even though

Katherine strongly objects. He then leaves for Venice to prepare for the

wedding. Petruchio arrives at his wedding very late and ridiculously attired.

After marrying Katherine, he forces her to return to the country with him

immediately, leaving the wedding banquet to the guests. When they arrive

home-cold, tired, and hungry-he refuses to let her eat or sleep. He finds fault

with the meat and the making of the bed, pretending that they are not good

enough for Katherine and she shall therefore have none. Petruchio is taming his

wife as he is would tame an animal. However, Petruchio continues his taming. He

offers to purchase finery for Katherine for a trip to her father’s house, but

then finds fault with all the haberdasher and a tailor have to

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