The manner and behavior through which Petruchio "wins" Katherine may be mildly judged as obnoxious and intense. Petruchio takes courtship and marriage to an entirely brutal level. After receiving resistance to sugary sweet attempts, the rascal turns to physical coercion and fearful intimidation in asserting his superiority. In Kate's final pep talk, the conclusion remains apparent that starvation, sleep deprivation, verbal threats of violence, and relentless savagery maintain productive dating methods with the opposite sex (or whatever the preference maybe).

Prior to Petruchio's initial courtship, Kate was renowned for her stiff tongue and hostile disposition. Katherine is more than capable of warding of all possible suitors as well as Bianca and their father, Baptista. She is secure under her father's umbrella of wealth and plenty comfortable with her living conditions (other than social). Provided with at least 3 meals a day of noble proportion/quality, in privacy exists Kate in full accommodation to sleep the day through in opulent luxury. With these stable and dependable necessities Katherine is accustomed to, her fighting spirit to defy and cons

Petruchio: . . . It shall be moon, or star, or what I list, or e'er I journey to your father's house.

Here is where Petruchio hears the "click" noise in his head and knows he is not only superior, but certain that Katherine understands she is a follower, not a leader. The seemingly cruel lord and master pushes the envelope to test his falcon's performance on his father-in-law, Vincentio. The to and frow game of copycat extends within Vincentio's gender status as well as his apparent attractiveness.

Katherine: . . . And be it moon, or sun, or what you please. And if you please to call it a rush candle, henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. . . . but sun it is not, when you say it is not, and the moon changes even as your mind. What you will have it named, even that it is, and so It shall be for Katherine.

This time Katherine follows suit straight from the get go and enters a 2 + 2 = 5 Orwell-ish-esque mental capacity. From this point on, the only force Kate exerts is to pull her own weight and cow tow to her own personal god. Finally, Katherine's fate is visibly sealed by her finishing statement of male-dominating propaganda to her "colleagues". Petruchio may have invented social brainwashing but Big Brother revolutionized it and took up a step to a whole other level.

william shakespeare's taming of the shrew

Petruchio: Good morrow, gentle mistres

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)