Monday, January 28, 2013

Unquestionable love or only a price tag?


Love in the Taming of the Shrew is often questionable as to whether it is real or just a price tag. Petruchio cares about having money and being wealthy, “I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua” (Shakespear 53) He does not care about the love or how much of a “shrew” she really is. He cares about what wealth he will get as being her husband. And how good of one he will be. “Happily to wive and thrive as best I may. Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.” (Shakespear 52) He knows that when he wives kate that he will be rich and travel the world such as he wanted, he only cares about kate’s price tag but not her actual soul. She is but a shrew to be tamed for money. “She says your worship means to make a puppet of her.” (Shakespear, 83) Petruchio only wishes to tame Kate for his own and to achieve the money that comes with her. So is love in this book really unquestionable or is it only a price tag?

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