Act 5 Scene 2

Question 1

basic key summary

Answer 1

bets on who will be the most obedient wife, bianca being vulgar, bianca and widow as unobedient, kats speech

Question 2

bianca quotes

Answer 2

“head and butt!”
“am i your bird?”
“what a foolish duty call you this?”

Question 3

marriage quotes

Answer 3

“an awful rule and right supremacy”
“sir, your wife send not a worse”
“another dowry to another another for she is changed as she had never been”

Question 4

katherina key quotes

Answer 4

“[she obeys]”
“thy lord, thy king, thy governor”
“thy lord, thy life, thy keeper”
“commits his body to painful labour… whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe”
“fair looks and true obedience”
“such duty”
“will deign to sip or touch one drop of it”
“graceless taitor”
“bound to serve, love and obey”

Question 5

what is bianca displayed as?

Answer 5

• puts petruchio in his place
• atypical behaviour
• rude + vulgar
• first view of her as wife and she cant come as she is busy
• kat as foolish for submitting to a male

Question 6

bianca quotes

Answer 6

‘your wife send you not a word’
‘am i your bird?’
‘fie! what a foolish duty you call this?’

Question 7

‘thy lord, thy king, thy governor’

Answer 7

• religious lang-> holy trinity
• superior-like royalty
• link to ‘graceless traitor to her loving lord’-> when not obedient and are bad tempered to petruchio seen as rebel, her past behaviour was seen as traitoress, going against him=going against law

Question 8

‘threatening’ ‘dart’ ‘scornful’ ‘wound’

Answer 8

semantic field of violence, acts as a warning to others

Question 9

A05 of scene?

Answer 9

‘forward, peevish, sullen sour’ -> mirrors her at start, shrewish.
did seem ideal at first, more practical to submit as his wife than to tarnish her rep and suffer