Does The Taming of the shrew provide the audience with a fair representation of the treatment
... ” (The Taming Of The Shrew p107). This stood out to me as an excellent representation of the plays meaning, and of the views that people had towards women in the 16th and 17th centuries. William Shakespeare’s play “The Taming Of The Shrew” is a story about a wealthy Count (Pertruchio), who comes to the country of Padua to find himself a wealthy woman for a bride. ... After reading and studying “The Taming Of The Shrew” in detail, I am going to answer this essay question, Does “ The Taming Of The Shrew” provide the audience with a fair representation of the treatment of, and views towards, women in the 16th and 17th centuries? ... In my essay, I am going discuss the lives of women in the 16th and 17th centuries, and how Shakespeare represented this in “The Taming Of The Shrew”. ... This might have had a great effect on how he wrote “The Taming Of The Shrew”, as well as any other play that he wrote where the female characters abandoned their inferior and second place roles, and stepped into a man’s world. ... Also In the play “The Taming Of The Shrew,” when Pertucio decides that he wants to marry Katherina, he goes to her father first to ask him about a dowry. ... Further more in “The Taming Of The Shrew”, Baptista (Katherina and Biancas father) and Pertruchio agree on and arrange the marriage before Katherina and Pertruchio have even met. ... However it was considered a great shame on the woman and her family if she didn’t marry, and Shakespeare shows this accurately in the play “The Taming Of The Shrew,” as Baptista is ashamed of the fact that no one will marry Katherina So he tells Bianca’s suitors that no one can marry Bianca until a husband is found for Katherina. ... The Jobs aspect of women’s lives in the 16th and 17th centuries is not portrayed in “The Taming Of The Shrew”. ... When Shakespeare wrote “The Taming Of The Shrew” These treatments towards women would not have seemed unfair. ... Now I promise you, You have show’d me a tender fatherly regard, To wish me wed to half a lunatic, A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing jack that thinks with oaths to face the matter out,” (The Taming Of The Shrew p47). ... But for these other gauds unbind my hands, I’ll pull them off myself, Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat, Or what you will command me I will do, So well I know my duty to my elders,” (The Taming Of The Shrew p35). ... This quote helps to prove that Bianca was quiet and obedient, because even though Katherina is getting aggressive with her and is shouting at her, Bianca does not shout back at Katherina, but instead tries to be friends with Bianca. ... “Her fault-and that is faults enough-Is that she is intolerable curst, And shrewd and forward so beyond all measure That, were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold,” (The Taming Of The Shrew p26). ... “But in the other’s silence do I see Maid’s mild behaviour and sobriety,” (The Taming Of The Shrew p17). ... So the way in which the two characters behave does represent how the are perceived and treated by others. ... I also think the way in which the other characters treated Bianca was fair. ... In Conclusion I believe that Shakespeare did give a fair representation of women in the 16th and 17th centuries, He took the two sides of women in the 1500s and 1600s.