VicTAME

Gender society 4-6-01 Period 1 Kate as a vicTAME james magno The manner and behavior through which Petruchio "wins" Katherine may be mildly judged as obnoxious and intense. Petruchio takes courtship and marriage to an entirely brutal level. After receiving resistance to sugary sweet attempts, the rascal turns to physical coercion and fearful intimidation in asserting his superiority. In Kate's final pep talk, the conclusion remains apparent that starvation, sleep deprivation, verbal threats of violence, …

…go and enters a 2 + 2 = 5 Orwell-ish-esque mental capacity. From this point on, the only force Kate exerts is to pull her own weight and cow tow to her own personal god. Finally, Katherine's fate is visibly sealed by her finishing statement of male-dominating propaganda to her "colleagues". Petruchio may have invented social brainwashing but Big Brother revolutionized it and took up a step to a whole other level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** william shakespeare's taming of the shrew