Key quotes - TTOTS Flashcards
For I am he, born to tame you kate.
Petruchio.
- hunting motif
-misogynistic
-Theme of fate (enslaved by fate)
-Sets up terms for future relationship
-shows Petruchio’s egotistical, self-important perception of himself, elevating himself above other men as he is her singular master - the only one capable of taming her.
-the social hierarchy depicted in the play is extremely rigid and narrow - making Petruchio’s power over Kate even more absolute.
From a wild Kate to a Kate/Comformable as other household Kate’s.
Petruchio.
-Misogynistic.
-Taming/hunting motif.
-Reification, turning her into a household object.
You will be my wife, your dowry ‘greed/And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
-Petruchio’s motivation is money.
-Lack of women’s rights, he will marry her against her will.
-Foreshadows Kate’s complete lack of autonomy and liberty.marks a break from his usual tactic of taming, where he forces his “reality” over hers. Here Petruchio’s lesson is outright: what you desire is meaningless. Her willingness or unwillingness is irrelevant, since she is the daughter and wife, and he is the husband and the man.
Board her though she chides as loud/ as Thunder
Petruchio.
-connotes rape.
-metaphor of her a ship (reification?)
-metaphor of her refusal as thunder – powerful.
“Why there’s a Lusty wench” +” I love her ten time more” (about Kate’s attitude)
-Petruchio appreciates Kate’s attitude.
-See her as a challenge.
-Authoritative, strong women often referred to as lusty wenches in medieval folklore/literature. Only times men would appreciate assertiveness when very sexualised and fetishised.
I came to wive it wealthy in Padua.
-shows petruchio’s mercenary intentions
-ties into unromantic/unrealistic view of marriage at time
-Shows awareness of his selfishness and materialism
Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale
petruchio:
-gaslighting.
-ironic
-Perfect iambic pentameter – his straightforward and simple argument.He will not allow anything she says to carry the meaning she ascribes to them. Instead, Petruchio will ascribe his own meaning to her words and force his own reality upon Katherine, regardless of her experience.
You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate
Petruchio:
-Deny identity.
-asserting dominance.
-commodifying and objectifying Kate.
she is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything.
Petruchio:
-Asyndetic list.
-Reification, she is a commodity.
-Patriarchy.
-Petruchio’s complete dominance over Katherina.
-Denies her any voice or opinion.
Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.
-suggest Petruchio feels it is time to consummate the marriage.
-suggest real passion, no longer just in it for the money.
-perhaps there is mutual desire in marriage.
-She holds a power over him because he desires her.
the mind that makes the body rich
Petruchio.
-hypocrisy, his motivation has always been wealth.
Here snip and nip and cut and slash – Act 4, Scene 3.
Petruchio.
-lexical field of violence.
-Symbolic of violence she is being subjected to.
“Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life; / An aweful rule and right supremacy, / And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy”
Petruchio.
-Petruchio’s description of a perfect marriage, reflected later in Kate’s final speech where she refers to him as her “lord” “king” and “governor”. Suggests he has successfully tamed her.
-Petruchio sees a perfect marriage as a tyrannical rulership, not an equal alliance.
If she chance to nod I’ll rail and brawl, and with the clamor keep her still awake. This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
Petruchio.
-Cruel psychological/physical abuse.
-alliteration of kill and kindness, emphasis on the irony of the oxymoronic juxtaposition of killing and kindness
-Shows his chauvinist and misogynist outlook on his egotistical ambition.
-ironic, there’s nothing kind about killing someone.
And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury
-They match each other in passion and temper.
-There may be some genuine connection.
To me she I married, not unto my clothes.
-Motif of clothes.
-Contradicts Petruchio’s earlier claims
-Demonstrating ridixulous amout of power he has over her.
(To Baptista about him making her marry Petruchio.): Call me your ‘Daughter’? Now I promise you/ You have showed a tender fatherly regard/ to wish me wed to one half lunatic.
Katherina:
-shows how Katherina feels rejected and unloved
O then, belike, you fancy riches more:
You will have Gremio to keep you fair.
Katherina:
-Jealous, shows desire to fit in a and get married.
“Place your hands below your husband’s foot”
Kate:
-Subservient.
-implies she is in service to him.
-they are not equals.
“Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i’ faith, you are too angry.
Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.” Act 2, Scene 1.
-matches his wit. (They are each other’s match, intellectually, in passion and in temper)
-Stands up for herself.
-Powerful.
-Foreshadows their turbulent relationship.
-Battle of the sexes
“”My mind hath been as big as one of yours,”
“But now I see our lances are but straws, our strength as weak, our weakness past compare” -Act 5, scene 2.
Kate:
-She has begun to think of herself as lowly, has conformed to society’s ideas about women.
-However, it is such an extreme change from her opinions before that it almost seems entirely sarcastic.
-Hyperbolic metaphors – perhaps used to create sarcasm.
I see a woman may be made a fool, if she had not a spirit to resist.
Kate:
-Shows Kate’s meaningful, emotional intellect.
-An important feminist perspective.
-Foreshadows what will eventually happen to her.
“Be it moon, or sun, or what you please.” +
“If you please to call… henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.”
Kate:
-Submission/surrender.
-Petruchio’s victory of Katherina becomes inevitable.
“It is the blessed sun. / But sun it is not, when you say it is not. /And the moon changes even as your mind.”
Kate:
-She Equivocates (to speak in a way that is intentionally not clear and confusing to other people, especially to hide the truth).
-Shows her wit and intelligence, that even in submission she can almost outwit him.
“No shame but mine.”
“He’ll woo a thousand,” “Yet never means to wed where he hath wooed.”
Kate.
-Shows Katherines humiliation.
“Forced to give my hand, opposed against my heart”
Kate.
-Shakespeare uses Kate as a mouth tool to criticize then treatment of women as a commodity, used as a business transaction against their will.
-Men dictated women’s futures, despite Kathrine not liking Petruchio, marriage is her only form of survival in a way, as she cannot look after herself because she is a woman and cannot work etc.
-Kate is ironically upset about Petruchio not marrying her, despite not wanting to marry him. Links to A03
