In my Drama class, we learned about Shakespeare's plays and women's struggle for rights. A shrew is a person who is not fitting the gender role "requirement". The play we read was The Taming of the Shrew and it is about a man named Christopher Sly comes in a bar and falls asleep and the owner of the place said to prank him in thinking he is a lord. After sober, Sly is treated to a play. In that play, there is a rich "prince" named Lucentio and his male servants, Tranio and Biondello, arrive in the Italian city name Padua to attend a university. During his search, he spots a beautiful young woman named Bianca and wants to marry her but he sees that she has two men who also want to marry her, Grumio and Hortensio. but for Bianca to get married, someone has to marry her “crazy” sister, Katherine. Pertucio, hortensio’s friend chooses to help hortensio get Bianca by marrying Katherine, only for her father’s money. When Katherine gets married, Pertucio comes in very unprofessional and drags her out of her own wedding and brainwashes her into obeying him. Our class had to write a simple Shakespearean sonnet about one of the characters in the play and I chose Katherine because I feel like she had a lot to go through and had a major turn around.
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She was living the rich life being who she was
did not care that people spoke about her
A feral female who showed her jaws
Or that single, young, women who starts blur
She exclaimed that it wouldn’t be so hard
All of her mis mindfulness took a toll
want to marry her is on a blank card
chose to marry her sister on scroll
together a bad man she shouldn’t marry
Abused and destroyed her mental state
Being her, outspoken was to bury
In there, She barely slept and barely ate
She’s gone, mind only a remote control
A robot to her husband was his goal
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