Servants Quotes Flashcards
Grumio: Take up my…
mistress’ gown to his master’s use?
Tranio’s
intelligence/scholarly interest…
“sweet philosophy”, “moral discipline”, “Aristotles checks”, “Mathematics and the metaphysics”
Tranio: “No profit grows…
where no pleasure ta’en”
Grumio: Take up my mistress’ gown to his master’s use?
-Joke on cross dressing.
-sex/rape, misogynistic.
-Sexual objectification “use”.
-Implies she is of lower status than servants – even they can publicly humiliate her.
Tranio: “sweet philosophy”, “moral discipline”, “Aristotles checks”, “Mathematics and the metaphysics”
-Very educated, matches Lucentio in eloquence and education.
-Speaks in verse, most working class and lower class speak in prose, he speaks like the nobles.
-Traino takes on the archetype of the older/wiser mentor of the protagonist, the fact that he is a servant inverts social hierarchy.
-upper-class in this period were meant to a good example for the lower classes, ironic that lower-class Traino seems to be wiser than Lucentio.
Tranio: “No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en:”
In brief sir, study what you most affect. There’s small choice in rotten apples.”
-Encourages Lucentio to be hedonistic.
-Show by the alliteration linking profit and pleasure - profit or fulfilment - found in indulgence and hedonism.
-Could be the devious servant, if the master is having a good time, so is the servant.
-Comedy Stock character of the deceit.
Grumoi: when Petruchio wrings him by his ears ‘My master is mad’.
-Transgressive servant to master – amusing.
-Perhaps not funny – makes us empathise.
-antisocial behaviour is perceived as mad.
-alliteration of m sound – smooth melancholy sound – protest mistreatment of servants.
-Foreshadow Petruchio’s propensity for violence.
Tranio (about Petruchio): ‘wildcat’ wife into a ‘slow-wing’d turtle dove’
-metaphors in juxtaposition.
-Pun on Wild Kate - suggests her previous position was natural - free and untamed.
-Dove - symbol of love and peace - ideal - tamed - subserveint.
-Extremes juxtaposed – comical image of transformation from one extreme to another.
-Dehumanisation – only comical to some audiences.
-Dehumanises Kate – zoomorphism.
-Petruchio’s taiming achievements are glorified – presents him as comic hero – resourceful and successful.
-Shows other characters respect his achievement.
-Reveals misogynistic views of Elizabethan society about ideal women.
Tranio: Lucentio slipp’d me like his greyhound, / which runs himself and catches for his master
-Simile - Greyhound – the hunting dog – loyal and acts in servitude to hunter.
-Shows Tranio Transgression (of disguise as upperclass) as not transgressive – rather act of servitude/ submission.
-Never disrupted the natural order.
-Almost marxist critique of capatalist society - Renaissance - beginning of capitalism - worker alienated from the product of their production.
Tranio: ‘’Tis thought your deer does hold you at bay’
-Dramatic Irony – Kate has been tamed.
-Hunting motif – shows men view a woman being dominant over a may is a shame.
-Metaphor - Women represented by does – vulnerable and susceptible to the hunter.
He kills…
her in her own humor (Petruchio’s servant Peter)
Peter: He kills her in her own humor
-Kills her - abuse and violence.
-in her own humor - Petruchio’s taming/cruelty is simply a mirror of her own turbulent personality.
-Suggest Petruchio’s taming may be with good intentions - intends to make Katerina’s life easier - show her how to have fun in a more societal acceptable way - performing gender roles.
Gremio: Why, he’s a devil, a devil, a very fiend!
Tranio: Why she’s a devil, a devil, the devils dam!
Gremio: Tut, she’s a lamb, a dove, a fool, to him.
-Parallel structure - shows they are a match.
-Devil imagery applied to both - comically hyperbolic - portrays them as a comedic duo - non-conformist.
-Exclamative sounds very profound - comical.
-Triplet/ rule of 3 - shows she is harmless compared to him (ironically she has the bad reputation).
-Lamb - of god - imagery more like Bianca - suggests the taming is underway.
-Dove - symbol of peace - ironic juxtaposition to Gremio’s earlier descriptions of her.
