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The Shrew Gender Roles

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A comedy, drama, romance, and romantic comedy all in one play can only mean that this play is, The Taming of the Shrew. This play was written by William Shakespeare set during the late 16th century. Throughout the play, it has funny, romantic, and a lot of dramatic scenes. With all the scenes shows a lot of gender roles and what they intel. This play shows a limited number of social roles that are available to women. As in the 16th century, the man is suppose to be dominant in a family or marriage. But in Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare shows the opposite of a male dominance and the female characters show more of the dominance and defy the men and there suppose to be dominate rein. Gender roles are defined as a set …show more content…

Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitchèd battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
Tush, tush, fear boys with bugs! (1.2.201-213)”. Even though women try to defy the men and there dominance throughout the play, the men show many scenes of them trying to show other men they are the dominate ones. The women like Katherine in this play should be the dominate ones …show more content…

Basically with her saying a painful labor that women have to go through everyday that women should be the dominate ones in the world because Katherine knows like many other women know men could not handle going through a child birth and as much pain women go through. Women are stronger than men and are the ones that give life to everyone including men. Kathrine throughout the play is seen as sexism and has a hatred for me. This is why Kathrine wants to defy dominance in her time and try’s to show men that women can do anything without the help and support of men. This play reminds a lot of the movie “10 things I hate about you”. It really doesn’t remind of it, it basically is “10 things I hate about you”. So the director of that movie probably remade The Taming of the Shrew but put it into perspective of the 21st century, rather than the 16th century view. Katherine is such a wild, spiritual character that she can take care of herself that readers see that during the 16th century women tried showing the world they can do anything just like men. She doesn’t

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