Themes Flashcards

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gender and misogyny

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  • Petruchio ‘taming’ Katerina to be submissive role of wife
  • Bianca plays role of quiet, mild mannered women whilst Katerina rebels against this
  • end scene of males teasing each other of who rules over wife and who is ruled by wife, making less of a man
  • both men and women dont always fit gender role but always woman - Kat- who are punished
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gender and misogyny

Bianca

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  • puts up a front of a quiet, mild mannered sterotypical woman of the time
  • wheras she actually remains intelligent and bold ‘despair not’ ‘am i your bird’
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gender and misogyny

Katerina

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  • viewed as ‘froward’ and hellish for being atypical, dominant, male-traited female
  • valued less highly as a potential wife
  • tamed? or pretending?
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gender and misogyny

Shakespeare’s potential purposes?

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  • expose traditional gender roles
  • with all these swapping characters, gender roles may be just roles to be played rather than their identities (dramaturgiology link)
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gender and misogyny

where in the play + quotes?

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  • Act 1 Scene 2: “curst” “froward” “shrewd” “woo this wildcat”
  • Act 2 Scene 1: “your treasure. she must have a husband”
  • Act 4 Scene 3: “it shall be what o’clock I say it is”
  • Act 5 Scene 2: “thy lord, thy life, thy keeper”
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social hieracy/ class

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  • women oppressed like the servants (beaten + insulted)
  • starts with Sly
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