ehavior, she is an unkind sister and through the play, she is in fact a disobedient wife. She fosters her father's attitude of favoritism for herself and dislikes for Katherine by playing the part of a whole victim. As another secondary character, there is Lucentio. He is a wealthy man devoted to Bianca for obscure reasons. He marries Bianca after going through many difficult tasks in order for them to get married. They are perhaps a typical pair of immature lovers; they think only of themselves, and each considers his individual wishes before those of his beloved. Baptista is the father of Katherine and Bianca. He is the harried father, having difficulty marrying his two daughters because one of them is a shrew. He is not, an object of sympathy, since Katherine is a shrew because of his treatment of her. He ignores the question of his daughters' happiness in seeking mates for them. He wishes, in the c
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