Taming Of The Shrew

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him, even if she knows he�s wrong, she will get what she wants, a loving husband, a nice home, nice clothes, food and a warm bed to sleep in. In a way she manipulates him into thinking he has won when really they are both equal.
Kate�s independence is overwhelming for the sixteenth century. Shakespeare had a very wild imagination, he creates a woman who would be respected today but is so extroverted that in it�s day and age it was almost unbelievable. To contradict you�re father or husband was unimaginable. Kate not only talks back to her father but to everyone. She deserved a dose of her own medicine but Petruchio went a bit overboard. Shakespeare was trying to show that not all women are as fragile as Bianca and that men can go too far.
Bianca is a perfect example of the kind of woman that was accepted in the fifteen hundreds. She is sweet and proper and does whatever she is told. She is content to learn and believes that whatever a man tells her must be the truth. She takes her ...

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