Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Tamming of the Shrew- Katherina

Katherina is a character from the play The Tamming of the Shrew, her traits are:
-ill-tempered (gets annoyed of Petruchio easily, and her father)
-unmanagebale (hard to tame, especially for her new husband)
-bad-tempered (has a short fuse before she blows up at characters of the play)

Katherina is Baptista's daughter and Bianca's older sister, Katherina is known throughout Padua as a shrew, however, she has a much deeper character than the term would imply. She appears mean to Bianca, but only because she has continually been second in her father's affections. The transformation which she undergoes after she marries Petruchio is not one of character, but one of attitude.

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