Quotes Petruchio

Question 1

For I am born…

Answer 1

to tame you, Kate.
Petruchio act 2, scene 1.

Question 1

From a wild Kate…

Answer 1

to a Kate/Comfortable as other household Kate’s.
Petruchio act 2, scene 1.

Question 2

You will be my wife…

Answer 2

your dowry ‘greed/And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Act 2, scene 1, Petruchio.

Question 3

Board her…

Answer 3

though she chides as loud/ as Thunder

Question 4

Lusty…
I love…

Answer 4

wench”
her ten time more”
(about Kate’s attitude)

Question 5

I came to…

Answer 5

wive it wealthily in Padua.

Question 6

Say that she rail…

Answer 6

why then I’ll tell her plain, She sings as sweetly as a nightingale

Question 7

You lie…

Answer 7

in faith, for you are called plain Kate.

Question 8

she is my goods…

Answer 8

my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff, my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything.

Question 9

Why, there’s a…

Answer 9

wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. -Act 5, scene 2.

Question 10

the mind that…

Answer 10

makes the body rich.

Question 11

Here snip…

Answer 11

and nip and cut and slash – Act 4, Scene 3.

Question 12

“Marry, peace it bodes…

Answer 12

and love, and quiet life; / An aweful rule and right supremacy, / And, to be short, what not that’s sweet and happy”

Question 13

If she chance to nod…

Answer 13

I’ll rail and brawl, and with the clamor keep her still awake. This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

Question 14

And where two raging…

Answer 14

fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Question 15

To me she is married,….

Answer 15

not unto my clothe.

Question 16

For I am born to tame you, Kate.

-A

Answer 16

-Hunting motif.

-Misogynistic.

-Theme of Fate (Enslaved to her by fate?)

-Doing it to her - she is in the passive position - lacks autonomy.

-Sets the terms for their future relationships.

• Shows Petruchio’s egotistical/self-important perception of himself.

Question 17

From a wild Kate to a Kate/Conformable as other household Kate’s.
-A

Answer 17

-Misogynistic.

-Taming/hunting motif.

-Reification, turning her into a household object.

-Pun on Kate and Cat - ‘wildcat’ - suggest taming of an animal from is wild natural state to a state of subsurvience.

Question 18

You will be my wife, your dowry ‘greed/And will you, nill you, I will marry you.

Answer 18

-Petruchio’s motivation is money.
-Marriage as a financial arrangement.
-Lack of women’s rights, he will marry her against her will.
-Theme of Money and Marriage.
-Theme of Violence.
-Imperative command - lingusitically asserts power.
-Kate in passive position - lack of autonomy.

Question 19

Board her though she chides as loud/ as Thunder

Answer 19

-connotes rape.

-metaphor of her a ship (reification?)

-simely of her refusal as thunder –wild natural anger - great resistance to him.

-Theme of Violence.

-Masculine power - taming motif - assert his dominance.

Question 20

“Lusty wench” +” I love her ten time more” (about Kate’s attitude)

Answer 20

-Petruchio appreciates Kate’s attitude.

-See her as a challenge.

Ironic after what she has just done.
Ironic overstatement – creates amusement.

-Petruchio’s willingness to battle with evil forces – prove his masculinity to the other men. - relates to devil motif.

Question 21

I came to wive it wealthy in Padua.
If wealthily, then happily, in Padua.

Answer 21

-Motivated by money.

-Unromantic/realistic view of marriage at the time - the marriage market.

-alliteration - emphasizes mercenary concerns - link between women and money - women are a symbol of wealth - especially tamed women.

-Shows awareness of his selfishness and materialism.

-Foreshadowing - Petruchio gains status when Kate is tamed - and gains money.

-rep of adverb ‘wealthily’.

-epistrophe of Padua - ironic - Padua is a city of culture - top university - only interested in wealth.

Question 22

Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale

Answer 22

-gaslighting - not comical - abuse and violence.
-Masculine assertion and ability to define female.

-CBS as comical - subverts the truth - witty and resourceful training method.

-Perfect iambic pentameter – his straightforward and simple argument - perfectly thought out solution.

-Denies her autonomy even over her own actions.

-During soliloquy - comical scheming - perhaps comic villain.

Question 23

You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate

Answer 23

-Deny identity.

-asserting dominance.

-“psychological rape” (J.D Huston) brutal stripping of her identity and forward sexual language. (whole scene)

-Comedy: Almost flirtatious tension between the two characters - witty
repartee duirng this scene.

-Battle of the sexes.

Question 24

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.

Answer 24

-Asyndetic list.

-Reification, she is a commodity - possessive pronoun my – reifies Kate.

-Patriarchy.

-Petruchio’s complete dominance over Katherina.

-Denies her any voice or opinion.

-positions her alongside animals and inanimate objects – characteristics of things which are desirable to him – voicelessness, obedience, usefulness.

-Imitating the tenth commandment – forcible reminder of the weight of authority and tradition behind the attitude to woman.

-Parody of the 10 commandments - religious Elizabethan audiences would have picked this up.
However may not be amused – very religious post protestant era.

Question 25

Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. -Act 5, scene 2.

Answer 25

-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 desire her.

-Comical either because Kates speech is so sarcastic that the audience laughs at Petruchio - dramatic irony.
or because they really seem in love - comical development from the start.

-Could be consensual - imperative command.

-Theme of Marriage.

Question 26

the mind that makes the body rich.

To me she I married, not unto my clothe.

Answer 26

-Hypocrisy, his motivation has always been wealth - irony.

-Perhaps presents Petruchio as the wiser comic hero - see beyond appearance - unlike Lucentio - and wins.

-Statement is at odds with the world of the play in which appearance dictates identity.

-Theme of money and Marriage.

Question 27

“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”

Answer 27

-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. Suggest happy marriage depends of female subordination - is this the messages Shakespeare is telling us?

-Lexical field of government and rule - Elizabeathan ideal that the private sphere reflects the public sphere - rule and supremacy of man - treated like monarch.

Comical - very unromantic view of marriage.

Question 28

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.

Answer 28

-Cruel psychological/physical abuse - theme of violence.

-alliteration of kill and kindness, emphasis on the ironic paradox of killing and kindness next to each other.

-Shows his chauvinist and misogynist outlook on his egotistical ambition.

-Ironic there is nothing “kind” about killing someone - almost comical idea.

-Taming motif - Petruchios wit and planning - CBS as comic hero.

Question 29

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury

Answer 29

-They match each other in passion and temper.

-There may be some genuine connection.

-Metaphor of fire - suggest passion and desire - suggests destruction of one and other.

-aliteration of f - feeling of passion to the words - suggests they will tame each other - mutual.

-Tabboo sexual undertones - comical.

-Theme of Violence.

Question 30

‘madcap ruffian’ (Act 2 scene 1) to ‘mad-brain rudesby’ (Act 3, scene 2)

Answer 30

-used to describe Petruchio.
-insulting/disrespectful language – comical. -Petruchio does not become more subdued – grows more violent and mad.

Question 31

Petruchio: ‘Why, how now Kate, I hope thou art not mad. / This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withr’d’

Answer 31

• Possible to view ‘mad’ Petruchio as one of Shakespeare’s licensed jesters, witty figure – helped to establish an atmosphere of carnival and misrule.

-madness has changed from antisocial actions to linguistic game-playing - become more accetable.

-lisiting of adjectives - the linguistic match of the two, echoes ‘young, budding, virgin’ - mutual game of wits.

Question 32

‘Twas I won the wager…/ And being a winner, God give you goodnight.’

Answer 32

Same smug egotism Petruchio began marriage with – not changed.

-In King Lear – madness leads to enlightenment.

-In this comedy – suggests it is only female who needs to learn – not her mad master.

-Forced to conclude men can behave as crazily as they please and still be allowed to control his wife and destiny

-Masculine game playing - bet - reifies women - shows his approach as successful - comic hero.

Question 33

Petruchio: ‘curb’ his wife’s ‘mad and headstrong humour’

Answer 33

-Comical archetype of the shrew – emasculating.

-Taming motif – same techniques used to tame falcons.
-Alliteration – dramatic – h jumps out and punctuates the line emphasising Katherina’s disruption.

Question 34

Petruchio: ‘My falcon’ ‘now sharp and passing empty’ ‘till she stoop she must not be full-gorg’d’ ‘For then she never looks upon her lure’… ‘I have to man my haggard, / To make her come to know her keeper’s call’ … ‘She ate to meet today, nor none shall eat’

Answer 34

-Not comical – cruelty and abuse – dehumanising.
Perhaps comic villain – villainous language.

-Motif of falconry – zoomorphism – dehumanises Kate.
-Goes against natural state of Kate and Falcon – restore man-made hierarchy.
-Haggard - wild hawk
-Controlling necessities – complete control.
-Shakespeare highlights inequality.

Question 35

As wealth…

Answer 35

is burden of my wooing dance
(burden means musical accompaniment.

Question 36

As wealth is burden of my wooing dance

Answer 36

-subverts expectation of wooing being a romantic gesture.

-Romantic language ‘wooing’ and ‘dance’ - uses romantic language to subvert romantic cliche of wooing.

-metaphor - suggests it is practiced and precise.

-Shows that for him Romance equates to money.