KRM GCE Portfolio

I have been taking a Humanities class called Drama. In this class, we have been reading plays and talking about them in class. We have been visiting the Goodman Theatre and my class and I have been learning about the theatre and all of the equipment that the theatre has. I have learned a lot in this class. Something that I learned in this class was what a patriarchal society was. A patriarchal society is a society that men have control over everything. Women weren't able to do things for themselves. They had to make sure everything in the house was ready so that when the man comes home he can do whatever he needs to do for himself. This had an impact on me because as a growing woman, I never had a man tell me what to do and when to do it. For this project, we had to write a script with three characters. One of the characters had to be from The Taming Of The Shrew, another character had to be from A Doll's House, and the last character had to be a modern-day character. We had to

In Drama, we have been focusing on a play called The Taming Of Shrew that was written by Shakespeare. This play takes place in a patriarchal world, this means that men control everything that women do in this type of society. In this play, there are two women that are sisters, Katerine and Bianca. All of the men in the story want to marry Bianca because they think that her older sister, Katherine, is a shrew. A shrew is a bad-tempered or aggressive woman. The men in this story don't like Katherine because they do not like the fact that she speaks her mind and she does not want to listen to any of the men. Katherine's father, Baptista, tels the men that none of them can marry Bianca until Katherine gets married first. Sooner or later, a man named Petruchio was told by two men that Katherine was an angel and that she is a beautiful woman. Petruchio goes for the set up that these two men tell him and he wants to marry Katherine. Later on, in the play, Petruchio and Katherine get m