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The Taming of the Shrew - Was Katherina really tamed?
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... The Taming of the Shrew - Was Katherina really tamed? Upon completing reading The Taming of the Shrew mine, and probably many other people's, answer to this question was an immediate yes, Pertruchio had 'tamed' Katherina (Kate), reducing her to a subservient slave with little will of her own. This was largely due to the vastly different attitudes Kate expresses throughout the play. Before going to live with Pertruchio, Kate is very strong-minded and will not allow anyone, especially Pertruchio, to be the boss of her. "I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist." The speech made by Kate at the end of the play portrays her as being a completely different person; her attitudes are seemingly reversed. "Such duty as the subject owes the prince Even such a woman oweth to her husband...." However, upon further analysis of the character of Kate this view becomes more














