Father To Katherina And Bianca example essay topic

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The taming of the shrew is a plot derived from 'the war of sexes', in which males and females seek dominance in marriage. In this play, marriage isn't the result of love but people are expected to take part in it and see how it 'works out'. Gentlemen in this play are not about romance but are about how well they can suit their wives and keep them loyal. Marriage is like a game to the characters of this play, for example Hortensio says: " He who runs fastest gets the ring".

. The play also reflects dominance in marriages. Baptista; father to Katherina and Bianca, wants both his daughters to be happily wed, but he is not letting Bianca wed until his oldest daughter Katherina is wed. This shows that the two girls did not have a choice to when they wanted to get married it was up to her father, this was all from the theme 'a women was her fathers property until she wed, then she was property of her husband'.

The taming of Katherina is not because she is 'ignorant' as a women but as the way she treats men, or how she should treat men in this case. Women are expected to do this as the male characters of this play are all bought up as in the way of their fathers, and their fathers are all important men for example Lucentio's father is Vincent io, who is an elderly authority figure. In this period (Shakespearean) marriage was for wealth and social advancement, and not for love. The two main women Bianca and katherina, were seen and not heard, no matter how hard katherina rejected to this.

The two girls were seen to be their fathers possession until they wed, than they were property of their husband. A good case of what I meant by marriage was for social advancement is the story line of Petruchio and Katherina, the only reason why Petruchio wants anything to do with Katherina is because of a 'bet' with Lucentio, this shows that men did not show any romance about women but women were for show. Age difference was also a quite blatant thing I noticed, it was that women were married in teenage years around about the age of sixteen and the men they married were as old as forty.