The heroine of the “Taming of the Shrew” is quiet ego-centric person who wants the things around her to be under her control. She dares to insult her most close people – her family, just because of her bad mood or misunderstanding of their words. She takes the words addressed to her to literally without reading between the lines. Perhaps, a little bit more patience could help her to understand the people around her and not to take them so strictly.
As the quite opposite person we could see another Katherine. Katherine Boo – a Pulitzer Prize winner who is a famous journalist. The Article about her “An Outsider Gives Voice to Slumdogs” by author Charles McGrath ( Page C1) shows us how important and at the same time invisible person could be. She writes about the epic and important things around us and at the same time she never put herself at the beginning of the sentence as a point of view. She simply describes the things she saw with all the sincerity and gives the reader a right to judge. She doesn’t want to be a centre of someone’s’ attention and at the same time she actually could change the point of view of other people around her using the simple words.
Tetiana, your comparison of Shakespeare’s Katherine to the journalist Katherine Boo is highly perceptive. I think you have correctly identified two of the Shrew’s main problems: she takes words very literally, and initially, at least, sees no point of view other than her own. Katherine Boo offers a very telling contrast.
Your insights are somewhat obscured, however, by some misspellings and carelessness in your writing. When I read that our heroine “is quiet ego-centric person” — I wondered how on earth anyone could think that Shakespeare’s Kate is quiet, and thought you must be talking about Bianca.
Please re-read your posts very carefully before you put them up on the blog.