Taming Of The Shrew Analysis

Taming of the shrew was the time where women were the underdog. Females were meant to be obedient and not outspoken. However, the woman who puts that to rest was a girl named Katherine. With women aside, the men set themselves in societal classes for them to be set higher than those who have less. The more money the man has, the better chances he gets the better trophy wife. The setting tells the readers exactly what time line they are reading into when they hear certain words like “dowry.” The story continues in this transversal period of women changing the perception of how they should be looked at and seen with their lover or equal.
The women, Katherine and Bianca, are of age to finally marry someone of good prosper. For Bianca her pickings were more than Katherine could ever have because of her sharp tongue. The men looking to have

Bianca because she is younger, quieter and obedient. These men are well over the age of thirty years of age. But one man is twenty which gives him a better opportunity. Even in ten things I hate about you, the seniors go after the sophomore considering she is younger and not a spit fire. The impact is that no old man should pick up a young girl since he has the money to pay everything for her and improper to date someone years younger than you.
Marriage was the one thing that the men were waiting for to have.

But the girls’ father had other plans. The men needed Petruchio to marry Katherine, so they can have Bianca for themselves and Katherine did not like that her baby sister was getting all the attention. When Petruchio and Katherine finally meet it was something to behold. The dialogue between Petruchio and Kate was very quick. For most of the exchange, each spoke one witty line before the other responds. Petruchio beats Kate at insults and she has not exchanged insults with someone as clever as Petruchio, and she seems upset by the challenge he presents. Petruchio meant to flatter and indulge her through most of their first meeting, but also deals with her firmly. “Your father hath consented / That you shall be my wife; your dowry ’greed on, / And, will you, nill you, I will marry you.” Petruchio tells Kate that she will marry him with or without her consent because her father has agreed. Petruchio is strong-willed, and as Kate is, too, he feels that they are equally matched. Neither will drown the other out, but rather their meeting of passion will temper them

both.
The time of courtship was the time of men being power dynamic. Katherine was so outspoken but Petruchio stopped her at every turn. Petruchio is not violent with Kate; instead he “tames” her by starving her and depriving her of sleep. He denies her food on the belief that the food is not suitable for her to eat. He deprives her of sleep by thrashing about and complaining that the bed has not been made good enough for her. It seems to be working, in that Kate has not seemed shrill or harsh, but rather confused and kind to the servants. The power seemed to shift over time goes on and women are equal to men in some ways but not all. When all is said and done the lesson that was supposed to be taught was how Katherine was treating others.