Act 4 Scene 1

Question 1

basic key summary

Answer 1

kat falls off horse, starves her, keeps her from sleep, hawk reference, kat speaks twice

Question 2

petruchio quotes / taming

Answer 2

“my falcon is now sharp”
“her keepers”
“nor none shall eat… she slept not”
“kill a wife with kindness”
“i’ll curb her mad”

Question 3

relationship as abusive rather than anything else ?

Answer 3

• food as ‘burnt and dried away’
• ‘none shall eat, last night she slept not’
• he wishes to bend her temperment by turning everything against her by disgusing it as concern for her wellbeing
• starving her into submission
• at petruchios house so she is isolated
• shaping her into ideal woman of time

Question 4

‘my falcon now is sharp and passing empty’

Answer 4

• training her
• forcing her into submission
• making her weak and to rely on petruchio
• builds bonds through isolation

Question 5

how would different audiences view these taming tactics?

Answer 5

elizabethan- humorous, necessary
modern- see how far woman have come

Question 6

significance of katerinas lack of dialogue?

Answer 6

loosing identity as she is conforming and silenced to emboy ‘correct’ form wife of time should be