... prevalent in Kate, and she holds nothing back when expressing her feelings. In fact, Kate can be compared to a wild animal early in the play. Petruchio sets out to "woo this wildcat" (1.2, 195), and vows to "tame you, Kate, / And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate / Conformable as other household Kates" (2.1, 273-275), (Marvel 86). When Petruchio speaks this way, Kate gets ... , and he shows little respect to them in his writings. Neither character has many lines, and we do not see any sense of complexity in their characters. Bianca answers to her father's every beck-and-call, and does...

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• Grade Level: High School

... aunt harbors a slowly blossoming passion, attempting to attract a man's attention by carefully tending to her appearance. Kingston's fantasies must have direct bearing on her own life: she rejects, for example, the idea the idea that her aunt was a wild woman of loose morals. Instead, her aunt's greatest crime "one with which Kingston identifies "was acting on her private interests, stepping out ... an "American-normal" life during her waking hours, she dreams about "shrinking babies" and "airplanes" screaming across the sky. Furthermore, the place she is taught to call home, for all sh...

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