Monday, November 24, 2008
Lucentio
Lucentio is one of the main characters in the play as he plans to marry Bianca. He is a flat character whose traits don’t change throughout the story. Has he still wants to marry Bianca and have success over the other men, who won’t be able to “woo” her. The play moves forward as he disguises himself as Bianca’s Latin teacher so he can get next to her of course. As the play goes on, we learn how Lucentio is working his magic on Bianca as her teacher. The effects of this character have to deal with the other foil character and what they will do. On the dialogue, Lucentio plays as the Latin teacher while his servants play him and they try to talk to Bianca’s father about the marriage. When this happens, the other suitors decide to leave, since they know they have lost the battle over Bianca.
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Lucentio is basically the foil for Petruchio as Bianca is for Kate and somewhat of a flat character as you said. Lucentio is lovestruck by Bianca and wins her over by romance. Their relationship is a complete opposite of Petruchio's and Kate's. Lucentio moves the play forward by paying Petruchio to tame Kate so he can woo Bianca after, which takes us one step closer to the end of the play.
Lucentio's character definitely has flat characteristics but I find Shakespeare's use of him to be interesting. He begins the play (Act I, not the Induction) by making Lucentio seem as the typical lovestruck character and leads the audience to believe that this will be a very basic love story. The problem with Kate being wed first seems to be nothing more than that--a problem. However, it is soon revealed that Kate does not serve as just an obstruction to the main plot but her being "tamed" BECOMES the main plot.
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