Love, life, and laughter - the three L's of a successful relationship, but only one person is laughing. So, which sex is the victim? Men may use some clever ways to hide themselves to manipulate women and vice versa; nonetheless, Shakespeare implies the latter one: feminine obedience is a clever disguise women adopt to get what they want from men or victims. In his play, The Taming of The Shrew, Katherine is a shrewd shrew, who disguises herself as a dependent wife by "adopting" obedience to get her way from Patricia, who thinks he tames her yet, in essence, she tames him. In return for her obedience, Katherine gains the necessary needs for herself, from herself and as well as from others in the play. She begins the bout without a coach at her corner and with only her guileful wits, but as she learns the ropes, Katherine creates two different lives and sets strong goals for herself to KO her opponent.

Katherine fools everyone in the play by falsely changing her status and spirit as a shrew to a tame wife. When Patricia and Katherine first coincide, Katherine rages with her wits to imply her position as her refusal and as a cunning woman and "To wish [herself

And not obedient to his honest will,

With oaths kept waking and with brawling fed.

And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,

Kate is what some people today would call a bitch. But who could blame her? While she seems unhappy with her own belligerence, she wants to feel love; yet she does little to make herself lovable because she feels that "[she] must dance barefoot on [Bianca's] wedding day, / And, for [Baptista's] love for [Bianca], lead apes in hell," (II.i.33-34). Katherine grinds her teeth at others who frequently compare her to her docile sister, who uses her feminine stratagems to control her many suitors. She only wishes love and respect from her father and another significant other, but tempering her aggression with some of her sister's placidity highlights as her only solution. By adopting her sister's pretend serene, Katherine's notorious reputation crumbles and fits well in her audience's waste baskets. As a result, she gains love from her father, which premieres at the end of the play when he hands "Another dowry to another daughter, / For she is changed as she had never been," (V.ii.114-115) and respect from others who deny her domestic nature. Katherine also attains love from her significant other, Petruchio, who dives better under a docile woman than any other male-egotistic "tough guy". When Petruchio threatens to punish Kate once again for her contrariness during their argument of whether stands as day or night, Kate suddenly decides to let it be "moon or sun or what you please. / And if you please to call it a rushcandle, / Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me," (IV.v.13-15). She learns to sustain her independence through ironic exaggeration; if Petruchio says it is the moon, Katherine knows it is the moon. Her only way of keeping her inner freedom is by outwardly denying it, which she accomplishes beautifully as Petruchio and her father as evidence. The relationship between Kate and Petruchio does not begin by love. When Kate walks onto the roof of her father's house, the first thing Petruchio does is wor

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