Taming Of The Shrew Feminist Analysis

In “The Taming of the Shrew”, taming is the most significant word. Taming has the most powerful meaning. To Tame. To tame someone or something. When an individual chooses to tame someone or something, they are implying that this “thing” is less than them and will never be their equal. They are implying that this person isn’t acting in such a way society has deemed fit for their: ethnicity, gender, social/economic status, etc., and since this person isn’t acting the way they should they believe that they should be tamed. From the very beginning of, The Taming of the Shrew”, Shakespeare reveals to his audience those who are not acting fit for society. We have Christopher Sly, who is “tamed” as a joke, and in the play within

He doesn’t see her as his equal and he will never see her as his equal. Kate being the outspoken and “shrewd” woman must be tamed like an animal in order to fit her “husbands” definition of a woman. I believe that Petruchio and men that excuse his behavior are the problem, not the women in the play. These individuals believe that shrewd women are the problem and the only solution to this problem would be taming. If you are in a relationship (being platonically, and/or romanti-cally) the other person needs to be viewed as your equal. The key to every relationship is equality. It is plain and simple, one cannot have a healthy relationship with believing that the other party is inferior to them. I think the real question is can you really “tame” or control someone? Essentially, I don’t think it is really possible to tame people unless they actually want to be “tamed”. For example, if we look at history, all oppressed people have eventually fought back and created a revolution. (The Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, etc.) In history there is a domino effect on the oppressed, you see the oppressed eventually grow tired of being con-trolled so they fight back (with violence or non-violence). They fight back to show that they no longer want to be controlled and something needs to

Due to the Willie Lynch theory, Some African Americans have been tamed into thinking that light skin is superior to darker skin. Referring to hair, anything closer to straight hair is the best. However, due to the current “trend” of natural hair having curly hair is better than having an afro and so forth. The colorism issue as well as the hair type issue in the Black community are extreme problems that need to be addressed. These issues have been going on for so long that it is going to take a long time fixing the issues at hand.
The examples that I referred to above are simply stating that when an oppressed person lacks self-love (ex: A person not loving themselves because of their complexion) then the oppressor has won. The oppressor has won yet again in taming the minds of many and further corrupting their mindset into thinking what they have and what they are is considered bad. The oppressed from the example is lacking self-love and is further mentally enslaving themselves into a system of op-pression (the Willie lynch theory). This all began with taking away the power, and knowledge of where the slaves were originally