Taming Of The Shrew Kindness Quotes

Kindness is portrayed for many different reasons in everyday life. It can bring positivity such as a compliment, or it can be used to help someone else. Kindness is taught as being used for in the best interest of someone in the play by William Shakespeare. The play revolves around the wooing of Bianca because she is not allowed to be married until the eldest daughter, Katherina, is married off. Katherina is wild and out of control, so Petruchio decides he will tame her. False kindness is used to be a benefit for someone’s sake. Petruchio to Katherina, Tranio to Merchant, and Grumio to Katherina are examples of exhibiting false kindness in the comedy play, The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare. Petruchio demonstrates false kindness to Katherina. Katherina is constantly lashing out and doing absurd things. Petruchio is willing and determined to solve this by taming her to be a loving, kind, polite woman. He makes it known to her that he will marry and tame her when he says “thou must be married to no man but [him]; for [he] [is] he born to tame [her], Kate” (Shakespeare 44). Petruchio is very confident and bold. With this, he knows he can match up to Katherina and beat her at her own game. In his plan, he will use reverse psychology and mirror what she does. He

Katherina has arrived at Petruchio’s home, and Petruchio is carrying out his plan of taming her. In this, he is mirroring her. He decides that she will not eat food, so he makes up a reason for her not being allowed to eat anything. When Petruchio leaves, Grumio still carries through with the plan and will not give her food. After she begs for him to give her something to eat, he tells her “[he] [fears] it is too choleric a meat” (Shakespeare 68). Grumio is not allowing her to eat because they are trying to teach her that she will not get her way all of the time. Grumio does this for Katherina’s gain as becoming an obedient