Is Kate A Shrew

In the beginning, Kate appears to be quite a shrew. However, this is due to her father’s treatment of her. Kate is not a shrew; she has merely put on a shrew-like act to cover up the humiliation and embarrassment that her father has caused her. Her father seems as though he wishes to be rid of her, and will pass her off to any man willing to marry her, without regard for her …

…out a kind and respectful person. Rather than her new personality being a cloak for the old, shrewish one, her old personality was a cloak for her new one. Being a shrew was her defense for her father’s treatment of her. It may be said that Kate was ‘tamed,’ but it also seems that she was merely brought out of a defensive shell that she had put up to protect herself from her father.