eaking with Gremio and Hortensio. This conversation with Petruchio establishes Kate assomeone who is different from Katherine. Kate is who Petruchio will love and Kate is who hespeaks with. They verbally spar but Kate’s defense is an half hearted. Petruchio has matched herwit and even surpassed it. They are married and the change in her identity begins in earnest.The quote that best expresses what occurs within the marriage is when Peter says in ActIV scene 1, “He kills her in her own humour.” Petruchio speaks in the scene of her as a falcon intraining. He treats her kind of in the same way a horse is broken. A horse that is broken well isnot broken completely, its spirit remains. What Petruchio does with Kate is change her identity. He changes who she thinks she is. He also changes her perspective and how she views the world. A large change in her identity is when she stops viewing herself as cursed. Since Petruchio lovesher so completely he is at first called mad, but then she begins to accept that she is lovable,beautiful and all the other things he calls her. Her complete transformation is evident in her finalspeech she gives to Bianca and the widow. In Act V Scene 2 she says, “My mind hath been as bigas one of yours, my heart as great; my reason, haply, more, to bandy word for word and frown forfrown: but now I see our lances are but straws; our strengths are weak, our weaknesses pastcompare.” She has yielded fully to her husband but she is still a spirited woman. She is happyand as Anne Barton says it was accomplished with only minor physical discomfort. I agree withwhat she said. The play was well done and showed that our identities are transient....
