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This 5 page paper discusses the characters of Dido, Katherine and Penelope as to which is truest with respect to her inner self. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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This paper will look at three women: Dido (the Aeneid); Penelope (the Odyssey) and Katherine (Taming of the Shrew) and determine how the inner woman relates to the
persona she presents to the world, and which of them is truest to herself. Ill argue that its Kate who is truly the strongest of the three. Discussion In
order to compare the way women are treated in these works, and how the inner woman relates to the outer role she must play, we need to first look briefly
at them. In the Aeneid, Dido is Queen of Carthage. She meets Aeneas, who is sailing from Troy to Italy, where his future awaits (hell found the city
of Rome). She falls hopelessly in love with him and they become lovers. After some fairly explicit dalliance (if memory serves) the gods remind him that its his
duty to build a new city and he leaves her. She cant bear it, builds a funeral pyre with the possessions he leaves behind, then climbs onto it and
stabs herself with Aeneass castoff sword. Sorry, but she does. In Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare gives us a spirited, truly feisty woman, who is "tamed"
by the man she loves. The only thing that saves this play from being a soppy mess is that Petruchio loves Katherine as much as she does him.
In other words, theyre equals who are lucky enough to find one another and fall in love. But the meekness she shows in the last scene, when she puts
her hand under his foot, really rankles. Its only for show and done to "save face" (his face, that is) but its still jarring in context with all thats
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