"No mates for you unless you were of gentler, milder mould." ... Shakespeare unequivocally communicates messages stating the preferred natures of women in an imminent marriage situation, with men clearly desiring wives of acquiescent ways, like Bianca, while avoiding those of bolder natures, like Katherina. ... Petruchio demonstrates this domination when he tells his wife "that cap of yours becomes you not. ... Shakespeare's exploration of both clear and implied messages about marriage is a key feature of this play. ... Implicitly, Shakespeare presents the particulars of the rol...

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To what extent do Katherina and Bianca conform to the ideal of women and marriage in Shakespeare as time? ... The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era with adaptations into popular films such as ëten things I hate about you. ... The reason for Katherine's shrewish demeanor is never given in the play, though many directors have interpreted it as an act to discourage suitors, much like Hamlet's feigned madness. ... Yet they share the same characteristics that Shakespeare imparted onto many of his heroines...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due to the Moor my lord". Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... Let husbands know their wiv...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due to the Moor my lord". Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... Let husbands know their wives have sense like them. ...

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Cassio: What make you from home? ... Do you intend? ... Whether or not that includes Cassio is left a mystery, only Shakespeare knew what became of them. ... Let husbands kknow Their wives hvae sense like them. ... In my personal opinion, Shakespeare wanted to keep the readers in anxiety about the relationship between Emilia and Iago. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Other readings such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", by William Shakespeare, puts more of an imaginary view of how women grew up and lived their lives. ... Hale even said, "Well, women are used to worrying over Trifles." (6) With her being so unhappy she, metaphorically speaking, lived like her bird that she called her own. ... As for Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", an interesting twist is put in on how women lived their lives, and were treated in society. ... "What say you Hermia? ... Life was not fair and if you wanted freedom to marry who you loved then you ...

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She "hated" him, (he was not a perfect person, or he was like what he used to be) simply just because she loved him, and that was true love. ... She might not like watching football at all, but she did, for the reason that she loved him. When she asked the drowning question like every girl does, he gave her a satisfied response. ... As the author writes: "One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again." ... Shakespeare has said, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." ...

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In Shakespeare's Othello, Emilia and Desdemona's personalities contribute to their fate. ... These lines emphasize that fathers in Shakespeare's time, like Brabantio, consider their daughters as their possessions. ... This is shown when Emilia says "Let husbands know their wives have sense like them. ... Desdemona swears her innocence to Othello when she protests "And have you mercy too. ... If you think other / Remove your thought" (IV, ii. 112-114), Othello immediately assumes that she is lying. ...

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By acting fascinated by the roaring she makes him look like an idiot. ... "It's been going on all night, you know."" "Why didn't you wake me, " she said. ... This was definitely not how Wilson thought you should finish such a job, according to Wilson you have to face your enemy and not run like a coward- it must be done with honour. It is of course easy to say for a man who lives by the Shakespeare quotation: " By my troth, I can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year it quit for the next."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School