Is Kate Tamed?

Is Kate Tamed? In the Taming of the Shrew, Kate goes through an amazing alteration from a harsh shrew to an obedient, pleasant wife. This transformation occurs due to the realization of Kate and the respect that she understands she must have for her husband. Although Petruchio doesn’t “tame” Kate, he helps Kate to come to her realization that if she wants to be respected and treated as a lady, she must return the favor and become obedient. Thus the interpretation of the reader varies and it is evident that Kate has not been tamed but has unquestionably changed as a lady.
Kate has clearly come to realization that she wants to be treated as a standard human being instead of treated as the shrew she really was, or seemed to be. Kate is essentially the same person after Petruchio’s taming as she was before. The genuine difference between the Kate that Gremio refers to as a “fiend of Hell” (I. i.) to the Kate that Baptista gives “another dowry to” (V. ii.) is that she has learned to look beyond herself and begins to learn to look beyond herself and accept love. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church. – He himself being the savior of the body (5.22-5.23). These are the exact words that Paul says in his Letter to the Ephesians. Katherine refers to Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians in her monologue when explaining to Bianca and the Widow that women must be obedient to their husbands. Paul also says Husbands love tour wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself (5.25- 5.28). Katherine refers to this part of the letter when explaining that woman must be obedient since the husband provides the woman with food, shelter, and protection. Husbands must also be willing to give up their lives for the woman. In Katherine’s monologue she says I am ashamed that women are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace. When Katherine says this she seems surprised in the way that women act towards their husbands when they should be tremendously thankful for the things that their husbands provide for them. Although Petruchio did not essentially Tame Kate I undeniably think that he helped the process of changing Kate’s ways a lot quicker. There are many ways in which Petruchio helped Katherine come to her realization quicker, theses ways includes: making her become appreciative, using small words like bad Kate, and treating her when she does something correctly. An example in the book where Petruchio makes Kate become appreciative is when he brings her food to her after starving her for 3 days but threatening to take the food away if she doesn’t say thank you. All in all, from my point of view Katherine has not been tamed but has come to her realization. The transformation from the old Kate to the new Katherine occurs due to the realization of Katherine, the respect she understands she must have for her husband, and the actions that Petruchio takes to help speed up the process of Kate coming to the understanding of the true role of woman in society.