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The video I have uploaded to this post is when Petruchio met Kate (Katherine). At first he wanted to marry Kate for money but once he met her he knew that she was the love of his life. Kate was his picture perfect wife. Kate didn't want anything to do with him at first. We might believe that their relationship wasn't picture perfect but for them it was. They balance each other out. Katherine played a women that was a outcast in the Renaissance era because usually the women were pleasant and Kate wasn't pleasant. Kate was horrific but I believe towards the ending of the move she was a little tamed.
"Act V of The Taming of The Shrew"
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee ,And for thy maintenance commits his bodyTo painful labour both by sea and land,To watch the night in storms,
the day in cold,Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;And craves no other tribute at thy handsBut love, fair looks and true obedience;Too little payment for so great a debt.Such duty as the subject owes the princeEven such a woman oweth to her husband;And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,And not obedient to his honest will,What is she but a foul contending rebelAnd graceless traitor to her loving lord?I am ashamed that women are so simpleTo offer war where they should kneel for peace;Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
(The Taming of the Shrew Act V, Scene II)
As I quoted above Kate started a transformation of being a good wife to her husband. and she let it be known by mentioning it. Kate states that the women should obey their husband and that her marriage is for eternity.
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