Blog #4- Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, scene i
Act IV, scene i: Choose one of the following questions. Answer the questions or follow the
directions, and explain why Shakespeare wrote it the way he did. What makes the event(s) important? Use cited evidence to build a stronger
answer.
- · Grumio tells Curtis, another servant, the story of Petruchio and Kate’s journey home. In your own words, briefly describe what happened.
- · How does Petruchio greet his servants upon arrival? What is his tone/attitude?
- · What happens during Kate and Petruchio’s first meal together? Why is Petruchio
unhappy
with the meal? What is his solution to
the problem?
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Upon arrival Pertruchio greets his servants remorselessly. Ridiculing every little thing such as the broken heel of one of his servants boot, the food presented to them, and the "drab" outfits worn by most of the servants. Subsequent to that he strikes one of the servants for making a "mistake". It is said by Grumio that he's giving Kate a "taste of her own medicine". Consciously knowing that this is all part of his taming scheme. By him doing this I suppose it'll give her some outlook on her own behavioral issues.
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ReplyDeleteDuring Pertruchio and Kate's first date things went horribly wrong. Pertruchio is unhappy with his meal because he claims his meat was burnt leaving Kate not eating again. She already was hungry and tired. Pertruchio is already heated from his servants not doing well as he says. That night he starts an arguement with Kate on how the bed is not made neatly so she won't be able to sleep. I noted his solution to these problems is to just keep segueing with Kate in his way to "tame" her (C. Grant 2)
ReplyDeleteThis treatment of "taming" Kate is ridiculous. He's ruthlessly messing with her head making her feel like what he's doing is the right way of doing things. At first with the 2 problems you mentioned she also thought it was ridiculous but slowly she began to follow what he was saying.
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ReplyDeleteThis trip is significant because it explains the title of the book. It is a very big part of the humor in the book too, I believe. When they return Petruchio begins to complain about everything ad that happened on the ride home. He even strikes a servant out of anger. He uses complaining, striking the servant, and deceiving Kate as ways of "taming the shrew". Grumio and Petruchio tell how she is too rough and has behavior issues and the only way to stop it is to show her what she is like. They plot on how they can "give her a taste of her own medicine". (1.S.Rice)
ReplyDeleteI agree! He is doing all these "scenes" to give her a taste of what she does. He is continuously trying to tame her by doing all of this. (1 D. Bonea)
DeleteWhen Pertruchio and Kate have their first meal it turned into a disaster. His servants brought him and Kate the meal, he complains that it's over cooked and refuses to eat and pushes all the food off the table. Kate was already super tired and hungry; so she tells him be more patient. He replies to her comment and says that all he wants is a good meal for her. Then when they go to bed he makes another scene about how the bed isn't made. All his acts are his way of trying to tame her. (1 D.Bonea)
ReplyDeletePetruchio greets his servants disrespectfully and calls them out of there names and the servants take it that its there master. Petruchio would say they were foolish and morons. He kept repeating himself and his tone of voice is angry. He is really showing his true colors and proving himself to be the shrew is kind of like shrew marries shrew. When they are being served dinner a servant accidentally spills the water and Petruchio is outraged. Kate explains it was accident but he didn't care. Then the food was served and Petruchio claims that is is burnt and starts throwing things. " It gives me indigestion and that makes me irritable. Very, very irritable.Better for us to go hungry, since we’re both hotheaded, than for us to eat meat that’s been cooked too long. " Petruchio says about the burnt meat even though he is irritable as is. His solution to burnt meat is to go hungry since they are both hotheads.
ReplyDeleteThis first date/dinner mean couldn't have been more of a disaster. Pertruchio really was acting a fool over stuff that was so minor and not serious. Also, him talking to his servants like that isn't going to fix the solution. When someone keeps treating another person badly, eventually "karma" as some believe in will happen. Pertruchio's acting didn't realty have a person because I don't feel like that was the taming for Katherine. I feel it just opened her eyes to how Pertruchio really is as a person. An irritable human being. (C. Grant 2)
DeleteI don't think that Petruchio was showing his true colors or that he is truly a shrew. I believe that this was all a part of his plan to tame Kate. I believe his plan was to show her how she was acting so she would realize how awful she was. I do not think that his attitude truly his but his imitation of her. He was doing this to change her and mold her into the women he wanted her to be. (R. Luxemburger 7)
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ReplyDeleteWhen Petruchio arrives home with new bride Kate, he acts just as crazy as their wedding day. He treats them like trash, yelling at and hitting anyone who tries to please him. Petruchio acts like a very ungrateful, rude, arrogant, and annoying person. His tone is very harsh to the servants, who all believe that he has gone crazy. I think that he is trying to scary Kate into submission, however she is just annoyed with the whole situation. It isn't until he makes the servants take the food back for being "burnt" that Kate loses her cool with him, which only makes him act worse.
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When Petruchio arrives he seems to be already angry because he starts to call his servants out of their names and talks down to them. After he cursed and talked horribly about all the servants he was served supper. A servant accidentally spilled water and he got furious after Kate calmed him down they were served food and Petruchio threw a fit that it was burnt and solved the problem by saying him and Kate will go hungry than eat that food. This significant because you would think Kate would be the one with the hot temper but she acts so calm about the situation (S.Hyacinth 6 )
ReplyDeleteI think in this scene Petruchio is more of acting like he's mad and angry just to scare Kate. Kate, who is the most hot headed one is acting calm and quiet about the situation, i think, because she's afraid of Petruchio. He knows that this is a way of giving Kate a taste of her own medicine and frankly, it works.
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I totally agree. Petruchio got very angry all of the sudden and almost ruined the whole night with Kate. He had a very bad temper, but that also reflects Kate, because Kate was known to be a shrew and she use to be very ill-tempered before Petruchio tamed her.
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When Petruchio and Kate arrive, Petruchio greets his servants with nothing but anger and disrespect. Speaking out of full anger, Petrucio questions their intelligence and ability to follow directions by yelling at them. When they answer his questions, they explain what is happening, but Petrucio just gets even more angry. His anger even goes as far as striking a servant. His anger is not justified, but it sets a tone of frustration.
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I agree that Pertruchio however, I believe the anger comes from the fact that Katherine is disobident to him at first. This can explain the anger Pertruchio as to his servants. (1.A.McIntyre)
DeleteThe journey of Katherine and Petruchio back to Padua demonstrates much about the character of both Kate and Petruchio. It shows the reasons that Kate is considered a shrew through her disobedience and stubbornness. It shows how she feels a need to be right even when her opponent is clearly yanking her chain. When Petruchio claims the moon is beautiful tho it is midday Kate's stubbornness shows how unappealing her personality is. This scene also shows a major change in her character when she is broken by the willpower of Petruchio. This scene shows the transition from Shrew to obedient wife.
ReplyDeleteThe meal begins off horribly when Pertuchio says his meat is burnt and says he won't eat anything at all leaving Kate without a meal too. she begs him to be patient because she's tired and hungry but he still says no. Soon Petruchio is alone and tells how his intentions were to make Kate mad and to keep her waiting. (A.McINtyre 1)
ReplyDeleteOn Petruchio’s and Kate’s way home, Kate’s horse fell and she fell under her horse. The ground was very muddy and Kate became very dirty. Instead of Petruchio helping her, he beat Grumio and left Kate under her horse.Petruchio beat Grumio because Kate’s horse stumbled, even though that had nothing to do with Grumio. Petruchio’s immediate reaction should have been to help Kate. Kate had to trudge through the muddy earth in order to pull Petruchio off of Grumio. Petruchio was cursing while Kate was praying. Grumio didn’t know what to do with himself so he cried. The horses ran away. Grumio lost his strap for fastening the horses and Kate was upset. (C.Gunn 2)
ReplyDeleteThe first date between Kate and Petruchio is petrifying. He was over exaggerating about his meal and acts up because of it. He tries to act like a big shot in front of Kate by making his servants feel horrible about the job they're doing, and then he doesn't eat his food because the meat was 'burnt.' However, what he failed to realize was that Kate was extremely hungry and she didn't get to satisfy her hunger because Petruchio acted like a child. (1 Z. Plemons)
ReplyDeleteI disagree. I think Petruchio knows exactly what he is doing, and is purposefully starving Kate so that she will lose her will to him. Either she will give in to his wishes, or she will die of hunger.
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As soon as Petruchio and Kate get home, Petruchio treats his servants horrifically. He calls them names and points out their every little mistake. For example, he says "Out, you rogue! You pluck my foot awry." (Act IV, Scene i, 79) His attitude is one of anger because he did not say one nice thing to his servants and he is expecting perfection and not getting it. This event is important because it could be seen in two different ways. It could be seen as Petruchio wanting everything to be perfect so Katherine is pleased because he wants to make his new wife happy. However it could also be seen as Petruchio trying to act like he's trying to make her comfortable, but in reality he knows he is making her uncomfortable. I believe Shakespeare wrote this scene the way he did to show that you can not ever really break free from the roles in society you are assigned. Petruchio is rich so it is expected of him to be rude to those below him. Katherine is a woman so she is expected to be submissive of her husband. Therefore, she does not really respond to his angry outbursts. (R. Luxemburger 7)
ReplyDeleteWhen Pertruchio arrives, he seems to be in a bad mood, however this "bad mood" is never ending. He arrives immediately critisizing every thing about his servants. He comments on one of the servant's boots, their "drab" outfits and many other things. He claims this is giving Kate a "taste of her own medicine." (K. Small 6th)
ReplyDeleteAfter Kate and Petruchio's abrupt wedding he takes her back to his home. During Kate and Petruchio's first meal Petruchio claims he receives burnt meat. Petruchio freaks out, throws the food all over the stage and to "solve" the problem he claims they must fast. Kate is left even more hungry even though she says the meat was fine. When it is time for bed Petruchio complains about the making of the bed and claims they cannot sleep since the maids didn't do their job correctly. All of this extra foolery is a big show just to "tame" Katharina and it's really ridiculous. He is treating her as if she is an animal he has to sleep deprive and starve to get to follow directions. She's been brought to a new place, wed to a new man, and he doesn't even give her food. Food is a basic necessity and it's disgusting the means Petruchio is going by to "tame" Kate.
ReplyDeleteAfter Kate and Petruchio's abrupt wedding he takes her back to his home. During Kate and Petruchio's first meal Petruchio claims he receives burnt meat. Petruchio freaks out, throws the food all over the stage and to "solve" the problem he claims they must fast. Kate is left even more hungry even though she says the meat was fine. When it is time for bed Petruchio complains about the making of the bed and claims they cannot sleep since the maids didn't do their job correctly. All of this extra foolery is a big show just to "tame" Katharina and it's really ridiculous. He is treating her as if she is an animal he has to sleep deprive and starve to get to follow directions. She's been brought to a new place, wed to a new man, and he doesn't even give her food. Food is a basic necessity and it's disgusting the means Petruchio is going by to "tame" Kate.
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i agree with all of this it is terribly disgusting and if something like this was happening now days Petruchio would be arrested but everything Shakespeare rights is also highly dramatic for effect. (A.Phillips 2)
DeleteDuring Petruchio and Kate's first meal together, Petruchio is acting insane. He is lashing out at all of his servants, even if they simply accidentally spill a small amount of water. He calls all of his servants names and strikes one. However, at the same time he is saying sweet things to Kate. "A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-eared knave!—
ReplyDeleteCome, Kate, sit down. I know you have a stomach.
Will you give thanks, sweet Kate, or else shall I?—
What’s this? Mutton?"
Kate is pleading with him to stop, and that they are accidents and simple mistakes. When the meat arrives, Kate says it looks fine but Petruchio insists that it is overcooked and too dry. He throws the meat around and sends the silverware back. He says that they will just go without a meal for that night.
(D. Elliott 1st)
Petruchio acts extremely rude and ungrateful to his servants upon there arrival at his home. Every little thing that they do he criticizes extremely harshly and punishes them even when they have not done anything terribly wrong. I believes he does this as a way to reinforce the role he took up at the wedding when he forced her to leaver and showed up late. Because of the time period no matter how harsh he is and how hard Kate wants to fight she cant get out of the marriage. (A.Phillips 2)
ReplyDeleteThe meal starts off horribly, apparently Pertruchios meat is burnt. Kate is tired and hungry herself so she begs him to please be patient. Pertruchio refuses and says he will not eat, this leaving Kate without a meal as well. He refuses to listen to Kate's begging and continues to say no. When he is alone he admits that he was just trying to make Kate angry and keep her waiting. (S.Maughon 2nd)
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