This is not a fair comparison to compare petruchio’s behaviour to Katherine’s at the beginning of the play because petruchio was being insulting and how ever Katherina is just standing up for herself and being realistic . Also she is different to the other girls in padua in a way that she is more independent and can twist words. but all she is trying to portray that she does not want to get married.when petruchio has the argument with Katherina, petruchio said “, come, you wasp!” He is trying to insult her but when she reply’s “if I be waspish best be aware of my sting”. She uses what petruchio said against him in an intelligent way to stick up for herself but petrichio was trying to insult her. Also when petruchio is shouting at the servant Katherina was trying to calm petruchio down and you can see the behaviour that petruchio was showing to the slave and how different Katherina argues with people, she doesn’t show rage in her voice but she knows how to use words in a way that sounds like she is being insulting but she is really being truthfull and I believe this was the difference between petruchio’s behaviour and Katherina’s
October 16, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Elliot,
I was totally impressed that you volunteered to allow this work to be critiqued by the whole class. Now, I think you will have a great deal of input that will help you develop it until it reaches the ‘A’ level that we’re all looking for.
I look forward to seeing the progress!
Mr Waugh.
October 18, 2012 at 9:27 pm
The changes you made to this are all improvements, Elliot. This is great to see – now what you need is to locate and include quotations that support your new ideas in the second part of the paragraph.
If you’re up for it, I would be very keen to keep working on this. Let me know if you’d like my assistance finding the appropriate quotations.
CW