Kpa: Taming of the Shrew
KPA: Taming of the Shrew
In the play Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare includes several appeals of pathos, ethos and logos. In the last passage of the book, Katharina speaks out to all of the characters with a speech. Katharina describes how she has changed into a person who looks to her husband as her lord, her care taker. The characters who listened to her speech seemed impressed on how she has finally changed her rude attitude and how she obeys her husband Pertruchio’s every word. As Katharina beings her speech she tells how being a shrew is “In no sense meet or amiable.” (5.2.6).This implies that she thinks differently on being a woman who speaks her mind. She continues to say that being a shrew “blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads.” (5.2.4), therefore saying that she it is even unattractive to be a shrew. Nobody wanted her before in the beginning of the play as she screamed and hit anybody who upset her. She then continues with how she thinks a husband has higher authority towards his wife; “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee.” (5.2.11-12). She explains here that a husband is your lord and she begins to understand and appreciate the role of a husband.
As she continues with her speech, Shakespeare has included a lot of repetition on the word “thy” and the rhetoric pathos as Katharina builds up on the importance of a husband. Shakespeare again includes pathos as Katharina’s speech talks on the hard labor the husband must endure to keep the wife safe at home. “And for thy maintenance commits his body, to painful labour both by sea and land, to watch the night in storms, the day in cold, whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;” (5.2.13-16). She emphasizes on how the husband works day and night through the harshest weather to protect the wife from any harm.
Katharina explains that the only thing a husband wants in return
In the play Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare includes several appeals of pathos, ethos and logos. In the last passage of the book, Katharina speaks out to all of the characters with a speech. Katharina describes how she has changed into a person who looks to her husband as her lord, her care taker. The characters who listened to her speech seemed impressed on how she has finally changed her rude attitude and how she obeys her husband Pertruchio’s every word. As Katharina beings her speech she tells how being a shrew is “In no sense meet or amiable.” (5.2.6).This implies that she thinks differently on being a woman who speaks her mind. She continues to say that being a shrew “blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads.” (5.2.4), therefore saying that she it is even unattractive to be a shrew. Nobody wanted her before in the beginning of the play as she screamed and hit anybody who upset her. She then continues with how she thinks a husband has higher authority towards his wife; “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee.” (5.2.11-12). She explains here that a husband is your lord and she begins to understand and appreciate the role of a husband.
As she continues with her speech, Shakespeare has included a lot of repetition on the word “thy” and the rhetoric pathos as Katharina builds up on the importance of a husband. Shakespeare again includes pathos as Katharina’s speech talks on the hard labor the husband must endure to keep the wife safe at home. “And for thy maintenance commits his body, to painful labour both by sea and land, to watch the night in storms, the day in cold, whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;” (5.2.13-16). She emphasizes on how the husband works day and night through the harshest weather to protect the wife from any harm.
Katharina explains that the only thing a husband wants in return