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This 7 page paper examines the character of Katherine from, "The Taming of the Shrew", and determines how she succumbs to Petruccio. This paper highlights the gradual process of Katherine's loss of independence to reveal the extent to which Petruccio is able to control her. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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is making important commentary not only on gender roles, but on the loss of individuality and its ramifications. By slowly giving up herself for Petruccio, eventually this renders Katherine
little more than Petruccios puppet. At the beginning of The Taming of the Shrew, Katherine vows to have nothing at all to
do with Petruccio. It is Petruccios wish to marry a women, a shrew, since the death of his father has left him alone. He wants a shrew and
yet he wants to tame her as well, in order to satisfy his need to possess her. One rich enough
to be Petruccios wife- As wealth is burden of my wooing dance- Be she as foul as was Florentius love, As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd As
Socrates Xanthippe or a worse, She moves me not-or not removes at least Affections edge in me, were she as rough As are the welling Adriatic Seas. I come to
wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua (Act 1, Sc. 2, Ln. 64-73).
Even though Petruccio contends from the outset that he will marry Katherine, it is nearly impossible to believe, based upon the outspoken nature of Katherine and her staunch refusal
to have anything to do with Petruccio. One garners from her initial reaction that she is a strong woman, a "shrew" to be specific, and unwilling to tolerate anything
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