Kate is truly an unquiet women. She screams and yells to get her way, she throws things, she hits people with sticks and is overall very, very unpleasant. The reason why she is like this is probably because of her father and sister. When suitors came calling, it was always for her sister Bianca, never her. Kate's father made things worse by saying that no one could marry Bianca before Katherine. To revenge herself on Bianca, Katherine becomes even more undesirable.
Petruchio is a loud, boisterous fellow from Verona. He journeys to Padua to marry into a rich family, though he himself is already quite wealthy. He visits his friend Hortensio who, on hearing of Petruchio's goals, points him toward Katherine. Petruchio has attitude of a rich boy who has a high opinion of himself. This makes since because he actually is a rich boy, wandering the world in search of adventure.
Bianca is, at first glance, a quiet women, but on closer examination it is clear that she is a scheming, manipulative younger sister. She uses the goody two shoes act to get under Katherine's skin, and to make matters worse, for Katherine that is, her father adores her, doing anything she ask, short of marriage. Her manipulative sweetness is sort of revenge for her sister's abuse. In the scene where Katherine is chasing Bianca about the house with a stick, Bianca runs to her father for help.
Lucentio is a brave young rich boy from Pisa who had come to Padua to study at the university. He is lovestruck when he first catches sight of Bianca and uses deception and disguises to win her.
Did you think I was done? Haha, me too, but that was just the first question.....here goes.....
In her final speech, Kate outlines what she has learned marriage is. but is this view a biblical one?
In Gen. 3: 16 it says, "...Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." Also, in Ephesians 5: 22, 23: "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church." So yes, Kate's speech does describe a biblical marriage.
It is my opinion that Katherine and Petruchio tamed each other. For Kate it was more a more visible change, but Petruchio was definitely calmer at the end of the play. The last scene is a bet of a private joke between Petruchio and Kate.
