katharina-cbm


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====ugh. i can't believe my father! seriously. he had the nerve today to publically humiliate me in front of all these guys! not like i care, they're all scum anyway. but bianca was there...and she just loves to see me put down as the "shrew" daughter. its not like i can't love anybody..i totally could..at least. i think i could.. but unlike bianca i dont swoon at every dumb compliment tossed my way. seriously, could she be anymore desperate. i'm just smart enough to see through all the tainted sweet talk. guys only want one thing, they always have, always will. it doesn't help that my dad is well off. i dunno how bianca can't see it. i mean, gremio? really?! he looks like a toad. no lie. anyway, even though my dad was being...ridiculous and making a scene about me not being married and bianca being "oh so great" i settled the matter. those..gentlemen (if you can even call them that!) made it clear of what they think of me, so i made it clear how i think of them. hmph. i would seriously like to clobber those guys. they dont know anything, even bianca doesn't understand. she just wants to get married and is too bitter to be sensible. call me a shrew. but i'm a sensible shrew. out for now. oh. and real quick...if my father thinks im just going to go along with some arranged marriage he sets up...he's got another thing coming. ====

II .i.
====Ha. Well, today started off fine. I got Bianca soooo good. I was seriously so sick of her attitude. I tied her hands up!Ok ok, so it was a little rash, but I needed to know which suitor she preferred…and then she started to give me ‘tude!...i slapped her. I did. But she had it coming. She never says anything! Then just stares at me with such..contempt and like, a smug smile..like she knew all along what I was gonna do. Boy, I’m sick of it. And then dad comes in and doesn’t make anything better.He does what he always does…runs to Bianca’s side, comforting her, making sure everything is all right. The world could be on fire and dad would be making Bianca a full course meal. He’s so oblivious to everyone else. He didn’t even want to hear my side! Anyway, I know he likes her best-whatever- I’m ok with that. But I feel like im the only decent person in this family anymore…besides, I was never realllly going to hurt that little brat..just ruffle her feathers up a bit. And then she tried to act all sweet and innocent like always!!! Seriously, someone needs to teach that girl a lesson. It might help her grow up. not only did i get bianca really good, but also this incompetent "teacher" hortensio came in to help me learn how to play the lute this afternoon...gosh, what a creep. he totally tried to feel me up! he was all caressing my hand sayings these things, and then when i asked him to back off or leave he started insulting my playing! saying that i was using the wrong frets or something. leave it to a man to put all the blame on the woman. clearly i did nothing wrong. well anyway, i bashed him over the head with his precious lute and thats the last time that little twerp will try to teach me a lesson! ====

II .i.
 ====oh my word. this one guy had the NERVE! the nerve to come up and propose to me! like seriously...it was so stupid too, he started off by inquiring about my name. i asked him to call me katharine but instead he rambled on about all the different variations of katherine and even added his own descriptions...of what he //thought// i was like. ha.he even called me "my super dainty kate"...which, ticked me off. first of all. i'm not his..the fact that he used the possessive "my" just irked me. and then to top it all off he called me dainty. uh, as ifff!! dainty my foot. we'll see who's the dainty one...considering i slapped him. anyway, he had this incredulous and rather insulting proposal to which i told him he could beat it and to me he was nothing more than a stool. well, bad choice of words on my part...he told me to sit on him! perv. ugh. ha. anyway, this playful banter went on for quite some time...he wants me to be his tamed hen or something....idk? he was kinda cute... anyway. it was interesting to meet a man that matched my wits...i mean he wasnt scared and he didnt back off like all the other creeps who just got angry and tried to make themselves seem more powerful than me...which never works haha. even though i told him to buzz off like 10 times! i kinda didn't want him to leave..anyway, then he was just being a dumb guy and took everything to that level where nothing ever needs to go.ha. he was talking about tongues and tails and i dont know what to think of him. i'm glad there is someone to counter me but at the same time i'm insulted by his wording! he tried to sweet talk me, telling me how great i am and how all the other guys were wrong..which, ha its not like i care what they think of me. i'm glad they are scared. good. serves them right. but he did say some really nice things...and seemed sincere...oh what did he say..it was something like, ====

====" twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen, and now i find report a very liar. for thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, but slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers" ==== ====anyway i played it off cool...acted like i didn't care. the guy has alot of nerve saying what he did, considering he doesn't know me whatsoever. he got all sexual again...which bothers me to no end! gosh why are guys such pervs. seriously! he just talks a good game. it really bothered me the way he assumed that he was going to be able to make me tame or whatever. im not a wild animal! and the fact that he was proposing in such a proposterous manner. what ever happened to romance! ..not like i would accept anyway. anyway this guy can talk a good game but seriously, i can see right through it. ====

====soooo then i found out that apparently my dad and petruchio had already //arranged// the marriage. i had no say in the matter-what kind of dad does that to his daughter!? (just proving once again that he loves bianca wayyyy more than me!) anyway, so everything good that was going for petrucio in his favor totally evaporated when i found this out. he had a chance, got me thinking hmm maybe could he be the one. but noooo. didn't even ask me seriously, and my father!!! they plotted it behind my back with no regard to my feelings whatsoever. the nerve. well. fine. he'll just be married to a moody, unresponsive and unbearable wife. i'm gonna kill him. he's just been arranged to life long unhappiness! ====

III. ii.
==well bianca is such a flirt. seriously half the time i can't tell who she loves the most because she is swooning over alll these different guys in her life. lucentio,gremio, hortensio...it never ends! this new guy, tranio! seriously...she's not that cool...and im her sister. yeah so what she has a pretty face..faces fade. i mean sorry dear sister, but your looks aren't always going to be able to help you sail through life. ==


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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">petruchio pretty much stood me up! he made this big ole scene and was late to the wedding, with some bull crap excuse. do you know how this makes me look?! the guy stood me up! me. the girl who never lets a guy anywhere near her...he made me look like a fool. my dad forced me to marry a guy that will undoubtedly never care about me. clearly he just wanted my money. jerk. well...at least my dad felt sorry. and its about time. arranging me to marry a complete idiot! wanna know what he looked like when he DID get there?.....crap! he looked like straight up //**crap!** yeah. so he had his pants on inside out? and was wearing a dirty shirt and two different shoes and...what is this a joke to this guy? HE was the one that wanted it... i just dont understand why he is being such a jerk.... :\ he made me cry...guys never make me cry. i make them cry. he ruined my wedding day and! // =====

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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">so petruchio has been acting extremely weird. he is so worried about making everything pefect-which is silly cause nothing can ever be perfect-that he will barely let me eat anything or lie down! i think as an adult woman i can determine whether or not i like the food or accomidations. but nooooo. if it doens't suit him then how could it suit me? he is like going crazy!! i pity the servants and workers in this house..he barks orders at them and then freaks on them for doing exactly what he asks...the thing that bugs me the most is his rants spur off of what is best for me. after not eating the //perfectly fine// mutton he wouldnt let me get close to the bed!!! =====

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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">doesn't he remember that i didnt get any sleep last night?!...well. i'm onto the fools game..idk what he thinks he is doing by not allowing me any sort of luxery...but i can take it. =====

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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">and gremio! the dumb kid. i went to him privately to get me something to eat after barely getting crumb over the past 2 days-2 very exhausting days mind you- and the guy wouldn't relent! something is fishy here...ha well. i taught gremio a lesson for his stupidity and stubborn-ness. a good beating never hurt anybody... =====

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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">but arrrggghh i was about ready to scream! petruchio finally brought me something he believed to be suitable for me and do you know what happened?! hortensio ate it. which, petruchio pretended not to see...and then! before i could mutter a complaint he swept me away to some tailor who also was getting yelled at and belittled by my husband for doing his job perfectly fine. =====

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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">the poor taylor. petruchio wouldnt' even listen to me when i told him the cap that the gentleman had fashioned was one that was totally chic and completely in style. as if HE would know anything about women's fashion. well after i told him how ididn't appreciate him doubting my knowledge of what i wanted, and informed him that i am not an infant to be cradled..he let the hat go. =====

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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">anyway it seemed lilke forever until we got on the road to go back to dad's house and once we were moving petruchio was abeing so...juivinile! he wanted me to call the sun the moon or something? oh i dont remember. my mind is still fuzzy from what all happened. anyway..i think i called the sun the moon just for the sake of pleasing him...weird...but i was too weak to fight back.. =====

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<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">anyway by this point i was way too weak to fight back...he said that this young man we encountered was both a young woman at first, but then changed his mind to make me believe he was a senial man.. =====

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tee hee. i kissed petruchio in the middle of the street. haha yes...improper, but he is my husband now so i shall do what i like.
while at my fathers i met this disgusting woman. now just becuse i respect my husband and let him be the head of our household it does not mean that i am going to set by and let some uneducated priss of a widow come by and show me up and try and put me down. ha. i gave her a piece of my mind. overall...i can't say i'm upset at my father for hooking up me and petruchio..after all of the games of not eating and whatnot i see his pleasantness. i enjoy being his wife :] and he seems pleased petruchio summoned me and i cant say i didnt like the feeling of beig needed. idk..he asked me to get the other girls and tell them what i know...so i did. my newly formed philosophy is this. why were women created? to be there for men! no...not to be trampled on. but they need someone sturdy by their side to support them. just as we need someone to lean on and have care for us. we are created gentle and beautiful for a reason and that is ultimately for pleasing our husbands-so why try to defy nature? in all the man of the house does for us he simply asks for us to respect him with our obedience and love. which as a wife, is something i dont mind paying :]