Watch Taming of the Shrew
Taming of the Shrew is a Williams Shakespeare play tha
Watch Taming of the Shrew
Taming of the Shrew is a Williams Shakespeare play that begins with a young man who goes off to college and falls in love with a very beautiful girl. However, the girl can’t marry until her willful, older sister marries. The father of the sister clearly prefers the younger sister, Bianca, to the older sister, Kate. Bianca’s boyfriend finds a man who is willing to marry Kate for money and the father of the girls essentially “sells” Kate to this man, clearing the way for Bianca to marry. Kate’s new husband, Petruchio, then engages in a series of tests aimed at breaking Kate’s spirit. Write one paragraph answering each of the following questions:
1) Why does Petruchio wear ugly clothes to marry Kate? What do the clothes represent? 2) Why does Petruchio ask Kate to call the moon the sun and the sun the moon? What is the significance of this statement? When have you ever been asked to repeat something that clearly wasn’t true? 3) The play ends with Kate giving a speech about loving husbands. Do you think Kate has been tamed? Or do you think she has learned to manipulate the system?
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