the Taming of the Shrew. During the 1500-1800s, marriage was one of the most important aspects of society. It was a very serious decision to make because it not only affected your life, but it also could have affected your family's. It either ruined your reputation (by marrying someone of a lower class) or supported you (by marrying someone of the same or higher class). Even though marriages in both novels were arranged by social statuses and were influenced by the husband/father, the Taming of the
The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, begins with a local English lord deciding to play a prank on a drunk man named Christopher Sly, by taking Sly into his own home and dressing Sly as if he were the lord himself, with servants, a "wife", who is actually a pageboy dressed in women's clothing, and everything else a lord would have. At first, Sly does not believe anything he is told. However, with much convincing, he believes he is the lord and is told he is going to be shown a play called
way, Queen Elizabeth’s marriage to her nation was an example to women in this time period about how they should behave in their own marriages; totally devoted and obedient. In The Taming of the Shrew, there are two main couples in the story: Katherine and Petruchio, and Bianca and Lucentio. Because The Taming of the Shrew takes place during the time of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, Bianca and Katherine were expected to be completely obedient to their husbands. Bianca knew that this was how things were done
In the play, The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare, men use language to strip women of their power. To take their power away, they compare women to nature. Men also treat women as if they were the opposite of men, by calling them froward, the opposite of forward, a word commonly used to describe men. Finally, men take power away from women by expecting women to obey their husbands' every word. The ideal woman, from the perspective of a man, is an educated servant with good looks, and is their puppet