Quotes Petruchio Flashcards
For I am born…
to tame you, Kate.
Petruchio act 2, scene 1.
From a wild Kate…
to a Kate/Comfortable as other household Kate’s.
Petruchio act 2, scene 1.
You will be my wife…
your dowry ‘greed/And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Act 2, scene 1, Petruchio.
Board her…
though she chides as loud/ as Thunder
Lusty…
I love…
wench”
her ten time more”
(about Kate’s attitude)
I came to…
wive it wealthily in Padua.
Say that she rail…
why then I’ll tell her plain, She sings as sweetly as a nightingale
You lie…
in faith, for you are called plain 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.
Why, there’s a…
wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. -Act 5, scene 2.
the mind that…
makes the body rich.
Here snip…
and nip and cut and slash – Act 4, Scene 3.
“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”
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.
And where two raging…
fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
To me she is married,….
not unto my clothe.
For I am born to tame you, Kate.
-A
-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.
From a wild Kate to a Kate/Conformable as other household Kate’s.
-A
-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.
You will be my wife, your dowry ‘greed/And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
-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.
Board her though she chides as loud/ as Thunder
-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.
“Lusty wench” +” I love her ten time more” (about Kate’s attitude)
-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.
I came to wive it wealthy in Padua.
If wealthily, then happily, in Padua.
-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.
Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale
-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.
You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate
-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.
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.
-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.
Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. -Act 5, scene 2.
-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.
the mind that makes the body rich.
To me she I married, not unto my clothe.
-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.
“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’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.
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.
-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.
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.
-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.
‘madcap ruffian’ (Act 2 scene 1) to ‘mad-brain rudesby’ (Act 3, scene 2)
-used to describe Petruchio.
-insulting/disrespectful language – comical. -Petruchio does not become more subdued – grows more violent and mad.
Petruchio: ‘Why, how now Kate, I hope thou art not mad. / This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withr’d’
- 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.
‘Twas I won the wager…/ And being a winner, God give you goodnight.’
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.
Petruchio: ‘curb’ his wife’s ‘mad and headstrong humour’
-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.
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’
-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.
As wealth…
is burden of my wooing dance
(burden means musical accompaniment.
As wealth is burden of my wooing dance
-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.
