케이트의 혀 :『말괄량이 길들이기』에 반영된 영국 르네상스 여성의 육체에 대한 과학적 인식과 사회적 담론

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The aspects of socially and culturally restrained female identities during the British Renaissance may be traced either in literary representations in the 16th-century literature or in the social laws and moral homilies of English churches. However, in order to understand the cultural basis on the patriarchal oppression against women, it might be more fundamental to study how they perceived the female sex and body both physiologically and morally.
Women characters represented in English Renaissance plays are cultural products which mirror the English Renaissance patriarchal notions on women. The patriarchal discourse during the era perceived women as an inferior race of incomplete sex who needed to be educated, controlled, and tamed. The patriarchal discourse and practices were not a simple custom achieved through long repetitive social habits, but an elaborate ruling mechanism which had strong theoretical bases of justifying the patriarchal reign over women. Physiological knowledge on women's body during the era was not necessarily based on objective theories. It was a theoretical tool disguised as science.
This research will examine the scientific perceptions and social discourses on women's body, which are represented in The Taming of the Shrew, during the English Renaissance era. This research is focusing especially on the patriarchal discourse on the female tongue which aroused male agony and fear. Researching the scientific knowledge and moral expectations on women's body, this paper explains why the 16th-century English patriarchal culture was so sticking to the strict control over female tongue.
In The Taming of the Shrew, Kate's tongue symbolizes women's disorder and resistance against the patriarchal law and order. Kate's lousy tongue does not simply mean her talkativeness, but her dangerous challenge against the whole patriarchal language and system. The process of taming Kate is focused on taming her tongue. When Petruchio finishes taming her tongue, his taming Kate becomes complete. Taming Kate's tongue implies that revolting Kate is going to return to the patriarchal system. When her tongue is tamed, Kate loses her own language and only uses permitted words by the patriarchism.