In the play The Taming of the Shrew, men do quite absurd things to get what they want. Petruchio, Lucentio, Hortensio and Gremio all hatch plans to win the heart of the woman they choose. Throughout the play, many characters create alternate personas to woo the one they love. However, one man, Petruchio, prefers to naively pursue his future wife. All the ideas men concoct are in the hopes that Bianca or Kate might fall in love with them, whether or not they fall in love is due to how their suitors perform their acts of love. Lucentio is a suitor of Bianca. At the beginning of the play, Lucenito is portrayed as the clichéd "love at first sight" type of person. He must do everything in his power to get Bianca to marry him. He has devised a plan in which he will become "Cambio", a Latin teacher who will teach Bianca, while winning her heart. While Lucentio captures young Bianca's heart, Tranio does the dirty work and gains his father's approval and deceives Bianca's other suitors into believing that Lucentio is not interested in her. Lucentio is very spiritual when he begins teaching Bianca. At first, Bianca is naturally attracted to him but Lucentio doesn't stop there. During their Latin class, he confesses his true identity and his intentions and she agrees to run away with him. Lucentio was not the most manly when it came to expressing his feelings. He took an old and hackneyed approach to winning Bianca's love. “Tranio, I burn, I languish, I perish, Tranio, if I do not reach this modest girl.” (1:1:155-156) He fell in love with her sweet behavior and beauty which is actually not true love as he says. Once married, he discovers this as Bianca performs a clever behavior ... middle of paper ... the shrew could be tamed. He proved it to everyone at Lucentio and Bianca's wedding dinner. The way Petruchio treats Kate fits the standard gender roles of society at that time, but he does not want to crush Kate's spirit, only to make her do what he wants. Many different tactics were used in the play to win a woman's heart. . The most popular idea was secrecy. But in the end, the secret was not as successful as it should have been. Instead, Petruchio and his open courtship of Kate dominated everyone else's efforts in trying to find true love. In a way, Petruchio loved Kate, he just approached her in a different way. Petruchio was without comparison the most virile of the suitors. Love and affection can only take you so far when dominance and submission become everything in a relationship.Works CitedThe Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare