Blog 13

*After listening to the audio of Act V, scene ii*:

At the end of Act V, scene ii, Katherina makes a famous speech about the relationship husbands and wives should have. What three (3) lines did you find particularly interesting [especially since you have read about Katherina's transformation]? What is noteworthy about what she DOES NOT mention in her speech?

I found these following lines interesting because, they are contradicting what she says in the beginning of the play.

"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill seeming thick, bereft of beauty.

And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty, will it design to sip or touch one drop of it.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee.

And for my maintenance commits his body to painful labor both by sea and land."

Before she was rude and disrespectful but now she is saying how amazing men are. In the beginning, she said she doesn't need a man, but now she loves him so much. She mentions how great of a husband Petruchio is when in the beginning, she hated him. She does not mention the fact that she used to act so rude and ignorant like the other wives that she was lecturing.