Katherina and Bianca

Analytical Essay # 56753

English > Analysis
Shakespeare > Taming of the Shrew

A comparative analysis of the characters of of Katherina and Bianca in William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".

860 words () | 0 sources | MLA | 2003 United Kingdom

Paper Summary:

This paper details the differences and similarities between the characters of Katherina and Bianca in this Shakespearean play and shows how their characters change throughout the play. It looks at how Katherina begins as a shrew and how Bianca is shown to be exactly the opposite of Katherina and how, by the end of the play, Katherina and Bianca have completely switched places, with Katherina being the modest, submissive wife and Bianca the shrew.

From the Paper:

"At the beginning of the play we see Katherina as a beautiful and wealthy woman with a high social status like her father, but she is also condemned as being a curst shrew and a devil, and Gremio clearly shows this when, in Act I Scene 1, he says: "Think'st thou, Hortensio, though her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell?". In addition, in Act I Scene 2, he says "Katherine the curst, / A title for a maid of all titles the worst." "