Forget Love, It's Greed

          The theme that is imposed in Taming of the Shrew is that greed will overpower the purpose of love and getting married. Petruchio asks to get married to Kate because of the money he would get after marrying her since her family has a lot money. This takes over the meaning of getting married because he hadn't met her beforehand and still marries her aside from her shrewish because of the money. Greed is also shown by Grumio, Lucentio, and Hortensio being in competition to have Bianca for themselves. Reasons that are for themselves avoiding the fact that they are just using Petruchio to get Bianca. This theme counterparts Creon's behavior in Antigone. This antagonist character demonstrates greed by ignoring Antigone's reasoning of wanting to properly bury her brother, Polynices. After doing so, she then gets threatened to death even though she will be getting married to Creon's son, Haemon. The greed of Creon ruins Antigone and Haemon's love and soon to be marriage, in addition, Antigone's belief.~Mufaro M.