The title of the play "The Taming of the Shrew", suggests to me that it will be about someone being forced to calm down or training another person. The Taming of the Shrew is about how Petruchio tries to mould his wife Katherina into his ideal wife. Over the years in which "The Taming of the Shrew" has been performed, critics' insights and opinions of the play have changed drastically. The play has attracted so …showed first 75 words of 1312 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1312 total…fell Shakespeare is forcing us to sympathies with Katherina here because she is put in an impossible situation and must feel trapped and offended, yet there is very little she can do. Throughout the play Shakespeare uses minor characters to help bring out the major characters personalities, for example in Act 4 scene 1, Petruchio down grades andv shouts at one of his servants. Shakespeare shows Katherina trying to encourage Petruchio to treat them with more respect,