Bianca’s sister who is a shrew‚ Hortensio finds Petruchio who is willing to marry Katherine because of her money. Hortensio soon realizes that Bianca does not like him‚ so he moves on. Petruchio and Katherine end up getting married and Petruchio ends up taming Katherine. Bianca and Lucentio end up eloping and go back to Padua where Baptista is. In the play Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw is about a poor flower girl named Eliza Doolittle who
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is Katherina Minola? As I sat listening to the first read thru of Taming of the Shrew I started hearing answers to this question‚ through the descriptive words of the other characters. The words were not complimentary. This led to my next question… why is she perceived this way and is it true? This complicated lady I was about to play shows her true nature in her own words (if you listen closely) The story is that of the wealthy Minola family. Senor Baptista has 2 daughters Katherina the
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explain the continued fascination with Katherina in ’The Taming of the Shrew’ Audiences continue to be fascinated and relate with Katherina because of the struggles she faces with not fitting into a very concise‚ social mould. There’s no denying that The Taming of the Shrew is patriarchy at its worst. Shakespeare presents to the audience Katherina - an intelligent‚ highly stubborn woman who is willing to challenge the sexist patriarchal ideologies of the 16th century. She is subjected to many
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Hortencio (one of Bianca’s suitors) convinced his drunk‚ violent‚ and poor friend Petruchio to marry Katherine‚ for the dowry that Baptista would provide. I am here to convince you that Katherine‚ though vicious with her words and actions‚ is a better person than Petruchio‚ not on her own morals‚ but through the horrible actions of Petruchio. The first reason Petruchio is a horrible person is
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Is the verbal sparring between Kate and Petruchio a demonstration of Shakespeare’s misogyny? In the verbal sparring between these two characters there can be a debate over whether Shakespeare is in fact broadcasting his own misogynistic views onto his audience‚ which perhaps can seem a little shallow and uninspired thing to do for such a creative‚ celebrated writer‚ which is why I feel Shakespeare uses irony to highlight the fact that women should be treated differently‚ as intelligent people
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Katherina Minola The Taming of the Shrew is one of acclaimed playwright‚ William Shakespeare’s‚ earliest plays. However‚ despite the fact that it was written around 1592‚ in the Elizabethan era‚ the Taming of the Shrew is still widely read and appreciated today‚ over 400 years later. One of the primary reasons for the continued attraction of this play is our fascination with its main character‚ Katherina‚ daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola‚ and sister of much adored Bianca. She is seen at
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Explore the relationship between Baptista and his daughters‚ Katherina and Bianca. The reader first meets Baptista and his daughters (Katherina and Bianca) in Act one‚ Scene one. In this scene Baptista declares that he will not allow either Hortensio or Lucentio to marry Bianca‚ until Katherina is‚ herself‚ married. “That is not to bestow my youngest daughter before I have a husband for the elder”. This makes the reader think that perhaps he favours his youngest daughter as he delays Bianca’s marriage
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All He really wanted was her money‚ and he got it and he tamed her. Petruchio a person who is very harmful‚ exploiter and disrespectful person who loves money. Petruchio throughout the story do not really changed‚ but at the end he proved everyone wrong because he makes Katherine change a whole lot. In Play Petruchio Appears as an harmful type of guy by the way he acts. He Slapped Grumio for not knocking on the door. Petruchio told Grumio “Next time may you’ll knock when I Tell you‚ Punk Kid.”
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Based on what you read in the poem‚ describe the relationship between the speaker and the “you” in the poem. How important was the relationship to the speaker? Support your response by referencing directly to the poem. In her poem “Since You” the poet Dionne Brand‚ has expressed a very profound romantic relationship between her speaker and the “you” in the poem. She has also revealed that the relationship was the most important thing in her speaker’s life. Dionne Brand makes these views to be
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What relationship exists between Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and Will Self’s recent adaptation‚ and to what extent is Self’s transformation of the original a response to the new social context within which he is writing? The introduction will outline how Wilde’s original version could be read as a story with a moral‚ drawing on the myth of Narcissus and Goethe’s Faust‚ and that on a basic level‚ Self’s text operates in the same way. Referencing Houston A. Baker Junior’s essay “A tragedy
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