Comparing The Wife In Taming Of The Shrew And Today

The Wife The Taming of the Shrew and Today

Today many wives always want to have same position with their husband.

So that they always have conflict with each other. Why they always have

conflict? Actually, it is effected by wife who changes the traditional role.

As I remembered that wife and husband lived together very well in

sixteenth century. They didn't have any conflict. Many wives would obey their

husband when their husband order them to do everything. What different image of

the wife between sixteenth centuries and today? We can divide three different

images to explain in the Shakespeare's

They can take care themselves.

In article "Men, women more confused about roles" , Lillian is an example, "

When her marriage ended, she returned to work but would prefer to return full

time to mothering." 2 , who doesn't need her husband to support her life.

The second different image is that many husbands married their wife

just for love in the sixteenth centuries. In " The Taming of the shrew" Lucentio

loved Bianca very much, so that he disguised as a teacher who taught her Latin

everyday. He wanted to express his love to Bianca. However, many husbands marry

their wife not only for love today. Actually, they marry their wife who have

another purpose. Miss Enomoto explains her feeling in the article " Japanese

women no longer resigned to traditional roles". She recognizes that " They think

that just because I can cook, I can make a very good wife or a very good mother.

But a mother is someone who raises children, not a cook. A wife is a partner,

not a cook." 3

The third different image is that the role of the wife is changed.