... and depriving her of sleep. He assumes the facade of a perfect, caring husband, but in reality he is tormenting Katharina. This final speech is Katharina's retaliation for the game Petruchio has been playing with her. She shows him that she too can say and do one thing while meaning another. Katharina ... 's final speech seems to be a follow up to a previous encounter they had earlier in the day regarding the sun and the moon. Katharina ... an illusion that both Katharina and Petruchio create. The last aspect of the play that indicates Katharina has not been tamed is the form of her fi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... becoming dissatisfied with the way his life is going. The matter of the divorce leads to further irony later in the novel, when Newland and Ellen appear to be playing a game of cat-and-mouse with one another. Newland regrets persuading Ellen not to go through with the divorce, and starts to feel that since May would not marry him until ... social convention and in his own inadequacy. He feels his marriage to May is a sham, but does not have the courage to leave it and go to Ellen. Perhaps the final and most telling irony in the triangle between the three of them is May's pregnancy: she ...

• Word Count: 2957
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate