Lucentio + Bianca

Question 1

ideas that their love is an infacutation?

Answer 1

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Question 2

ideas their relationship is unrequited?

Answer 2

• Bianca views it as way to achieve her freedom and independence, not based on pure love
• lucentio engrossed in her idealised wife front disregarding their practicality eg economic barriers and deeper love

Question 3

what does Shakespeare express through their relationship?

Answer 3

highlights shortlasting nature of relationships based on appearance and deception, flaws in acquiring a marriage through deception

Question 4

evidence of lucentio as infactuated?

Answer 4

• focuses on “modest” “daughter of agenor”
• feels will die without “achieving” her- hyperbolic
• love struck “burns, pines, perish”= naive, hyperfixated, ignoring depths of her
• blindsighting biancas self- fractured rel his fault, too fragile rel to prevail, no obedient wife

Question 5

biancas role in the relationship?

Answer 5

• uses lucentio as a chance for freedom and independence
• portays herself as idealistic wife that lures lucentio in
• becomes disobedient wife at end due to reality of her personality and lucentio’s lack of attempt to know depths of her character
• end scene her behaviour reverts lucentio back to reality out of his love struck vision

Question 6

how can petruchio and katerina’s relationship contrast theirs?

Answer 6

• lucentio and bianca as foil for pure relationship + likewise
• petruchios techniques give him an understanding lucentio lacks and rel formed without any disguise or deception
• initial enecomic intentions vs lucentios pure intentions result in stronger marriage as it forms basis of their love, kat “obeys”
• have functional marriage which lucentio and bianca unable to do

Question 7

quotes for lucentio and bianca?

Answer 7

• ‘i burn i pine i perish”
• ‘if i achieve this young modest girl’
• ‘sweet beauty, daughter of agenor’ A1S1
• ‘i will not be tied… I please myself’
• ‘presume not…despair not’ A3S1
• ‘she is busy and cannot come’ A5S2