In Shakespeare’s Sonnet, he appears to demoralize a woman because she is not the exact way he thinks a true woman should act. Although he expresses his love for her and her” imperfections,” he only states this at the very end and comes to a summarized statement stating that “yeah she has a bunch of flaws and is very “DULL,” but I still love her. “
After re-reading the poem several times and watching the video, the skit enhanced the poem entirely. In the poem Shakespeare wrote, his sonnet describes her as dull, but I’d like to think Catherine’s depiction was of a schoolgirl with a sharp mouth, who might see her as the class clown. She was very fierce and did not back down. Instead, she tried challenging the teacher for the fun of it. Although she might have been perceived as a nuisance, she was nowhere near dull. When I think of the word fierce, I associate it with red. Because being ferocious is an intense emotion that would resonate with a more vibrant tone, although she was joking around and not severe in Catherine’s skit, she showed an understanding of Shakespeare despite her being a smart aleck; she recited it with much passion, which shocked the teacher himself. In Shakespeare’s sonnet, it’s as if there is still some love behind all the imperfections. He is stating regardless of her imperfections he loves her regardless. I think it could be seen as a slight shift in interpretation. At the end of the skit, the teacher turns her into an action figure, which doesn’t equate to love because it portrays an annoyance on his end. At the same time, this skit gave a visual representation of what Shakespeare saw in his eyes: someone deemed annoying, but you can’t help but love her because she also had intelligence. One line resonates significantly with me. Lines 8-10: “Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks./I love to hear her speak, yet well I know/That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I found this to resonate with the skit since Catherine was portraying a student with sharp muth giving the teacher a hard time, and this could be why he does not see her as goddesses because, especially given the time, it was men hated when a woman had a voice or a sharp mouth and relatively associated that trait as an unwanted woman.
Victoria Sasere