Taming of a Jerk

Hello and welcome to my first Action Project for my humanities class, Drama. In this unit, we read Shakespeare's  Taming of The Shrew and discussed the play from a feminists lense. The play was written in a time where women were seen as objects and it reflects that. For this AP, we were called to reply to one of the characters in sonnet form. I decided to take a stance against Petruchio the man who married Katharina.

Petruchio, you tamed a feral shrew.
some may congratulate and praise your name,
But, Petruchio know I chide at you.
Are you proud of your dreadful claim to fame?

Petruchio, you are an evil knave.
Thinking of you, nothing good comes to mind
Walk in the shoes of the girl you’ve enslaved
Maybe then you will grow your missing spine.

You say “she is my goods and my chattels”
Women are just as powerful as men
Is your masculinity so fragile?
Equality is the best way to win!

Sir, the way you “tame” is no comedy
You’ve made Katharina a tragedy