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Animal Imagery in Taming of the Shrew Many authors, from Orwell in his famous satirical novel Animal Farm to Shaw in his play Candida, have used animal images, comparisions, similies, and metaphors to convey characters's, or perhaps more accurately, man's internal idea's, aspirations, hopes, goals, and actions. The notable German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, in his essay entitled The Gay Science, wrote that "people are animals - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, and as the unhappy animal" Nietzsche realized that, especially though his actions, man is a lot like the rest of the animal kingdom - we laugh, we cry, we get angry, and we become sad. But, more than that, we sometimes treat each other just as animals in the wild treat their own kind. In the same way, William Shakespeare, in one of his earlier comedies, The Taming of the Shrew, uses animal references,...

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