How far will you go?

Taming of The Shrew is a play that shows how far people will go to find the ones they love. One of the themes that this play explores is that even a person with the most unattractive qualities may find love through obedience and submission. Throughout the book, Kate is portrayed as a shrew, bad tempered and aggressive. One example of this is when she is insulting Petruchio, "Asses are made to bear and so are you." Kate elucidates her unattractive qualities by insulting everyone. At the end of the play, Kate is "tamed" and doesn't argue with Petruchio. "Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be it moon or sun or what you please." They end up getting married and living their lives. One text that has an opposite meaning than this play is "Barbie Doll." Instead of finding true love at the end, the girl ends up dead because of her unattractive traits.
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