Griselda, Beatrice, and Kate Essay -- Comparative, The Model of Femin

In comparison wittinessh Griselda, the model of femininity and eponymous for patience and obedience, uncomplete Beatrice, from more Ado About Nothing, nor Kate, from The Taming of the Shrew, pompousness idealized classical femininity. Instead, Beatrice and Kate perform Shakespeares representation of the refractory womanhood in such a stylus that directly goes against everything that a woman should be. This causes Beatrice and Kates respective suitors Benedick and Petruchio to display their masculinity in a manner that counteracts their respective robustious womans deportment. The ending of both plays contains some ambiguity in the futures of these unruly women both bring in had some merger between their initial unruly behavior and their newfound stereotypical gender roles. While this merger brings the women nearer to normal society, they retain a core trait of rebellion which keeps them from wholly merging into their societies.In order to understand exactly how Beatrice a nd Kate fail to display model behavior throughout their plays, it is imperative to discuss the model behavior for women during the late medieval and renaissance periods. An excellent source of 16th ampere-second ideals comes from Giovanni Boccaccios 14th century collection of short tales, The Decameron. Specifically Boccaccios The Story of Griselda, tells the tale of a young, wealthy lord who selects Griselda, a crushed class woman, to be his wife. After four or five geezerhood of being married, the young lord, Gualtieri, decides that he would needs make proof of his mediocre wifes patience. (Griselda 3) Gualtieri tests Griseldas patience and obedience by sentencing their cardinal children to death, provokeing her by injurious speeches, showing fierce and frowning looks to her, (Griselda 3) and many... ...o their unconventional wooing. accenting their rebellious natures through wit and humor, both Beatrice and Kate behaved in ways that rejected any potential suitors. Beatrice and Kate used their words to attack and belittle men, something that short not allowed in a traditional Shakespearean woman. Beatrices wit was only allowed in the context that it was almost always humorous, allowing others to justify her language. Kates role as a shrew is rejected outright, as she neither uses humor nor can escape the fact that her fate is ultimately intractable by her father. It is not until they meet mates that with as much release and wit as they that either woman allows themselves to be married conforming to societys expectations. Both end up in relationships where they have more power than an average married woman would have, and neither ends up completely dominated.