You are probably tired of my blogs being about The Taming of the Shrew. I'm not into repetition so at least every time I write about the book, I write something new about it. I finally got to the end and my socks were blown right off. Let me start by saying that throughout the entire book I didn't think Katharina would be tamed, I believed Petruchio was going to fail miserably. I think I was rooting so hard for Kate because I saw some of myself in her.
We shared many similar beliefs. We believed in being outspoken, independent, and strong women. I admired the fact that no matter how many jokes were cracked on her, no matter how often she was made to feel like the black sheep of the family and no matter how many times she was ridiculed by the people around her, she stood by her beliefs. I admired her perseverance, consistency and loyalty to the things she believed in. That is why I was so shocked by her last words at the end of the book. The Kate that spoke those words wasn't the Katharina Shakespeare had led us to know throughout the book. She no longer seemed independent but dependent on her husband. She no longer seemed outspoken but preached to other wives to learn to bite their tongues so as not to burden their husbands with their words. It was such a drastic change from the Kate that I had seen so much of myself in.
Part of me understood that it was love or a yearning for peace within her household and marriage that had brought these changes. But the majority of me is not able to see how a person's attitude can change from day to night. It's not as if it was just one of her beliefs, she did a 180 on everything she stood for and started believing in the complete opposite. Who new that a couple days of starvation and abuse could create a whole new person.
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