The Taming of The Shrew Act Two and Act Three

Acts 2&3 (due Monday) 1. How does Petruchio "tame" Kate? Consider how he seems to define their roles.  In order to 'tame' Katherine, if you can really call it taming, is to simply talk to her. People are always putting her down, and being negative, so he walks in and talks to her nicely, and compliments her. He is feeling her with sweet nothings. She feels bad for being the older sister, and not being married, or having any suitors. So, she built up this wall of defense, and so people put her down. Her bitter attitude is really just a defense mechanism. Really though this makes Kate feel good because he is being so nice to her, despite knowing what others call her. When he talks about marrying her, and that they should be wed on Sunday, she doesn't argue. She is probably really happy because she feels that somebody actually loves her. He takes charge and defines the role that a male held in that time. He is authoritative. She for the first time actually does what she is expected to do, and agrees with the marriage, and goes along with it.  2. 3. 4. How does Katherine act in the scenes where she says little or nothing? For example, in Act 2, scene 1, how does Katherine behave when Petruchio reports on his success in wooing Kate and in their plans for marriage? Because the text provides little explanation, you must decide how she would act based on your interpretation of her character from previous scenes. She acts very much like she is expected to act. She keeps her mouth shut. It is out of character for her though, which takes me by surprise. The thing that really stood out, was when the announcement of the two to be wed on Sunday came out, and she didn't object. From the way she has acted, I would expect her to object without giving a second thought to it, if she really didn't want to get married. Imagine viewing this play in the Elizabethan era. Identify 4 moments of comedy. One moment of comedy would be when you see the page dressed up as a women. Another would be when the Lord wants to play a prank on the drunk man Sly. Petrucio dressing like a not so hot hot mess for his own wedding would be another moment of comedy. Pertuchio unveiling his master plan for winning Katherine would be a fourth moment of comedy. Disguise is a major theme in TotS. What famous Bible story involves deceit and disguise?  One major story of disguise in the Bible is the story of Esau and Jacob. Issac was blind and he was old. He knew that he was about to die, so he told his wife to send him his son Esau, who was the eldest of the two sons. He was going to bestow upon Esau his blessing, his natural birthright as the eldest, was to receive everything that was his fathers, or everything that his father saw fit for him to have. Their mother did not want Esau to receive the blessing, so she disguised Jacob, by putting hair on his arms. She prepared her husbands favorite foo. Then, she sent Jacob in. He talked like his brother, and acted like him, and tricked his father into giving him his brother's birthright. Thus deceiving his father and his brother.