“길들이기” 혹은 소통의 강요: 『말괄량이 길들이기』(The Taming of the Shrew) = “Taming” or the enforced communicative action in The Taming of the Shrew

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The patriarchal hierarchy and dominance over female characters have made The Taming of the Shrew one of Shakespeare’s most controversial works. In this play, the shrew indicates a “scolding woman” who is out of patriarchal regulation, and that is Katherina. According to Kahn, the word “shrew” represents men’s fear toward woman’s freewill in the Shakespearean age. When facing women who were not properly controlled by their order, patriarchal society have called them “witch” or “shrew” only to banish them, or try to tame as Petruchio did in the play, The Taming of the Shrew.
Some critics assert that though Katherina and Petruchio were strongly attracted to each other from their first meeting, and that she wasn’t forced to be subjected to him. And also others explain that Katherina’s identity is positively changed by Petruchio’s effort to tame her to acclimate to the society. However, Petruchio’s method to tame her shrewishness played a measure to coerce Katherina’s tongue. Having married, Katherina’s language, once independent and self-confident, becomes passive and superficial mimicking her male’s. This transformation in the play should be considered as Katherina’s deliberate feigning tameness after realizing her husband’s compulsive enforcement of submission, that is, his unilateral communicative action. So her last speech on a loving ideal wife is an intentional parody that reveals Petruchio’s taming was a failure, which sounds as if her confessed change in identity might not be real. In The Taming of the Shrew, “taming” is an enforced communicative action and the play represents woman’s bitter harvest after experiencing man’s enforced communicative action.

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