Taming Of The Shrew Vs Antigone Essay - 1122 Words

The definition of a hero is a person, who in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities, and is regarded as a role model. (Dictionary.com) In the two plays and movie, Taming of the Shrew, Antigone, and The Long Walk Home, there are many heroic characters such as, Kate from Taming of the Shrew, Antigone from Antigone, and Miriam Thompson from The Long Walk Home. Taming of the Shrew is a play that tells of a tale of one of two sisters, Kate and Bianca, trying to get suitors to marry. However, their dad says that the younger sister, Bianca, can not get married until the older sister, Kate, gets married first. The problem with this is that many people would consider Kate to be a shrew, which means†¦show more content†¦To further show her ability to persevere, she made it through Petruchio’s taming process, and came out of that process a tame wife. Petruchio was starving and sleep depriving Kate. When they got to the house after the wedding, Petruchio would not let her eat the perfectly fine meat, and said that it was not good enough for her. Then when she tried to sleep, Petruchio would start to argue her, and was throwing the bedding around the room, preventing her from being able to sleep. This shows her diligence and fortitude to be able to figure out how to play Petruchio’s game, and all of this shows heroism to be able to save herself from going insane. However, what makes her the least heroic is the ways she stood up for herself were always rude as well as demeaning towards others, and she only used her strength and heroic capabilities for herself. Antigone was one of the more heroic characters because she stood up for herself and her beliefs in a male dominated society where a woman standing up for herself is highly discouraged. Antigone’s uncle, Creon, made a law that stated that her brother, Polynices, could not have a proper burial because he fought against the city of Thebes. This wou ld be against Antigone’s moral convictions because in her religion, if someone did not have the proper burial, they would not get an afterlife. With that being said, Antigone went against her uncle’s law and buried her brother