I enjoy the story The Taming of the Shrew. I can understand the humor in it as best I can. The story line is quick pace and the language is hard to understand because of the way it is written. The footnotes help me to follow along as best I can. One of my favorite movies is “10 Things I Hate About You” which is based off this play by Shakespeare. When reading the play I have some sense of what is going on and the personalities of the characters based on what I have seen in the movie. This clarified some things for me while I was reading.
One of the romantic conflicts involves Katharina and Petruchio. He claims he will marry Katharina but she is not exactly thrilled with the idea. He knows about her curtness and how she is very hesitant and uptight with her ways. He tries very hard to seek her out. He says in one scene, “Say that she frown; I’ll say she looks as clear/ As morning roses newly washed with dew”. He says this because in the situation he doesn’t truly want Katharina but he sys these things so that he proves he can court her. It is a humorous situation when the two converse or when he talks of how he will try to gain Katharina’s love.
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