Reseach assignment for year 10 english at Napier Boys High

1. Shakespearean research assignment

2. 
No one wants to marry the fierce Katherine. Everyone
wants to marry her younger sister, Bianca. No one
can marry Bianca until Katherine has been taking off
the hands of her demented father, Baptista. Petruchio
decides that he will tackle, and marry the fierce
Katherina.

3. 
Petruchio is a young man from Verona, Italy.
He is out to discover the world in his quest to find
and marry a wealthy woman. Petruchio is an
antagonist in Taming of the shrew because of his
verbal and mental conflict with the main character,
Katherine.

4. 
Set in Padua, Italy.
Set in 1590-1591
The Taming Of The Shrew is a Shakespearean
comedy

5. 
Person Vs Person. As Petruchio mentally and verbally treats
Katherine badly to gain her respect.
Person Vs Self. As Katherine mentally breaks down when she
is forced to marry Petruchio.
Person Vs Society. As Katherine believes she does not have to
respect anyone else's views or respect anyone but herself.

6. 
The main force of conflict in The Taming Of
The Shrew is Person Vs Person. This is
between Petruchio and Katherine. This is the
driving force in the play as Petruchio shows no
respect to Katherine in attempt to change her
moral values. This causes many arguments and
fights during the course of the play.

7. 
Beginning
Exposition-Petruchio arrives in Padua, Italy. He wishes to marry a
wealthy woman.
Exciting Force- Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, Katherine’s
younger more beautiful sister. Bianca is only allowed to be married
when Katherine is taken off the hands of their father. This is
Petruchio’s role in the play.

8. 
Middle
Conflict/ rising action- Petruchio believes this is the perfect
chance to get married to a wealthy woman. He meets Katherine
and vowels to marry her no matter what she is like.
Catastrophe or falling action- Petruchio finally meets
Katherine, he sees what she is truly like. He follows his vowel
and begins planning their wedding. Katherine abruptly refuses to
go through with the wedding.

9. 
End
Resolution- Katherine finally agrees to the marriage. Bianca
and Lucentio are pleased because they know they will be married
once Katherine does.
Denouement- After the wedding Petruchio shows he is not as
kind as he first appeared as he begins to treat Katherine Badly
and with no respect. The does this until she begins to change the
she acts. He tames her.

10. 
Comic/ Dramatic relief
Baptista, father of Katherine and Bianca throws a feast
to celebrate the recent weddings. Petruchio shows that he
has successfully tamed his wife in front of everybody at
the feast. They have a completion to see who has the most
loyal wife. Every one is surprised to learn that
Katherine is now the most loyal of all the wives this
proves that Petruchio has successfully tamed the shrew.

11. 
Beginning
Petruchio a is seeking wealth rather than love, he believes this
will make him happy. “Come to live wealthily in Padua; if
wealthy then happy in Padua.”
Petruchio shows no fear when he is told how fierce she is. “Why
came I hither but to that intent? Think you a little din can daunt
my ears?”
Petruchio is ambitious and believes he can tame her. “I know she
is a irksome brawling so old: If that be all, I hear no harm.”

12. 
Motivation
Petruchio is driven by his desperate want of wealth. The only
way he knows how to do this is to marry an already wealthy
woman. This was a general custom for this time period.
Petruchio sees marrying Katherine to be the best option for him to
gain wealth. He is not discouraged by what people tell him about
Katherine.
“I know she is a irksome brawling so old: If that be all, I hear
no harm.”

13. 
Relationships with others
Petruchio generally gets on well with others, he is not too well known however
his fathers well known name lives on in him.
Petruchio does not however, get on with those below him such as servants. He
mocks them and abuses them with insults. “ you logger-headed unpolished
grooms.
Petruchio begins to realise that the only way to change the way Katherine
behaves is to treat her badly. Because of this during the first half of the
play he is kind and endeavouring however in the second half he becomes nasty
and cruel towards Katherine.

14. 
 Petruchio comes to Padua Italy comes to Italy looking to settle down
and find a wealthy wife so he can marry into wealth. “Come to live
wealthily in Padua; If wealthy then happy in Padua.”
 Petruchio then learns about a wealthy woman in need of a husband. He
hears that she is evil and fierce however he craves the wealth so much
that he does not care “ I know she is a irksome brawling scold; if that
be all, I hear no harm.
 He becomes obsessed before he has even met her. “ I will not sleep till I
see her.”

15. 
Once Petruchio meets Katherine he is disappointed that’s he will
not marry him. He doesn’t take no as an answer however and he
insists that she marry him.
Once they are married his personality changes completely as he
attempts to tame her. He becomes angry easily and becomes worse
then Katherine herself “ She ate nothing today, nor none shall
eat. Last night she slept not, nor tonight shall she not.”
He realises that he must mentally torcher her to change the way
she acts. “ this is the way to kill a wife with kindness.”

16. 
 By the of the play Petruchio has tamed Katherine successfully. Now
that Katherine is behaving like a true wife he begins to love her for who
she is rather then just putting up with her for the wealth involved. “
How fares my Kate?...Pluck up my spirits, look cheerfully upon me.”
“Why, there's a wench, come on and kiss me, Kate. “
Everyone is now happy with Petruchio now that he has changed Katherine.
BY the end Petruchio has gained the love and respect from his wife, he has
successfully married into wealth, and he has gained respect for taming
Katherine.

17. Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/petruchio
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Learnt- Information about Petruchio’s background.
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare 1996
-By The Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford.
Learnt- Where the play is set.
-Examples of conflict and resolution.
Sparknotes
www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/summary.html
Learnt-Quotes
-examples of conflict and resolution
IMDB
www.imdb.com/tittle/tt006/407/quotes
Learnt-Quotes.
Hawkes Bay Youth Theatre
Taming Of The Shrew
9th August 2012