Themes Flashcards
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2
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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’
4
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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?
5
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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)
6
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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