Petruchio + Katerina Flashcards
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modern day audience vs Elizabethan audience reactions to taming process?
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modern day-> abusive, morally wrong- Guardian
elizabethan-> necessary, hearing and seeing it all time since bible refs link to his actions - makes sense why he acts way does as would have been what god would have wanted
link to other character views-> ‘mad match’ ‘madly mated’ links to new testament
2
Q
similarities between katerina and petruchio?
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- clashes of personalities- both want to be character in control but petruchio uses his male power to tame kat
- act 3 scene 2, kat reasserting herself to be dominant as she “will not go”
3
Q
relationship as abusive
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- petruchio’s violence ‘strikes’ to regain power and control
- tailor scene- disconnects her from her identitiy
- ## ‘my goods, my chattle, my house’ that he is the ‘master of’
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others views o
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