Shakespeare’s Comment on Social Relationships

In Early days, authors who did not like the way people treated each other in society often criticized the relationships in what they wrote. In the play The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare expressed his opinion about these relationships and mistreatments in society. In his play Shakespeare focuses on the relationship between husbands and wives and how men treat their wives badly. His play also points out the mistreatments of servants by their masters. Another focus is the relationship between the parents and their children and how fathers prefer some of their children over the others. Shakespeare uses the many different human interactions in his play as a way to critique and comment on real social treatments.
In the play there are a number of husband-wife relationships that Shakespeare critically comments on. Katherina is know as a shrew and Petruchio is a man from Verona who’s father recently died and he wants to marry Katherina for her money. Petruchio mistreats her ...