Throughout the play, ‘The Taming of The Shrew’ Katherine has been through a series of events and multiple emotions. At the start of the play Katherine was opinionated and challenges men, because of her behaviour and act she was known around the kingdom as a shrew which is a bad tempered or aggressively assertive woman. There were many suitors for her younger sister, Bianca, but none for her as men knew who she was and was uninterested. Baptista(the father) has to marry off his oldest daughter in order for Bianca to get married and it would benefit him as well because of the dowry the men that was going to marry his daughters had to offer. In act two scene one, Petruchio and Katherine met for the first time and it started off with an argument …show more content…
He considered this manipulation as ‘kills her with kindness’ and he used excuses such as the food not being good enough for her to eat and the bed not being comfortable enough to his standards so he ‘fixes’ it by making her sleep deprived and starving. In all of act five there was a clear and vivid difference in how Katherine was behaving she was finally obeying her husband, Petruchio. From his manipulation, she finally gave in, in scene two she gave a speech to her little sister Bianca and a widow telling them that they should obey their husbands. Within this speech she has used textual integrity such as metaphorical language, a range of positive and negative emotions, repetition, and accumulative listing. In this speech Katherine has used the technique of metaphorical language to make a clear and vivid image of what being a married woman in this time was like and how they had to obey their husbands. An example from her speech are ‘A woman owes her husband the same loyalty a subject owes his king.’ Another example is ‘The disrespect for stance towards the man who is your lord, your king, your governor tarnishes your beauty the way the frosts of winter lights the land’ within this quote she has also used accumulative listing to drill the message into Bianca and the widow’s head that their husband should be treated like