Yessenia Vargas

March 18^th, 2015

Ms. Reyes Middlesex blog post #5: Text-to-text

Similar to Callie's love or obsession as some say argue, Lucentio's love for Bianca highlights the theme of forbidden love due to the fact that different obstacles stand in the way of them obtaining what they desire. The Taming of the Shrew, involves a beautiful young girl refer to as Bianca, because of her qualities she attracts many suitors. A variety of men ask Bianca's father to allow them to give her different classes in exchange to see her. Lucentio's love becomes forbidden as he is not the only one chasing after her and he has to work even harder in order to be the winner of her love. Similar to Callie's love for the object societies ideals stand in the way of their love. Since everyone around Callie views her as female and before her self discovery she view herself as one too, the idea of liking a girl is completely off limits as they go against societies norms. As Eugenides states, “We were hidden by the backrest, by the wall of hair, and who was the farmer to tell anyway?” (394) after Callie's accident, the Obscure Object builds up the courage to kiss her away from the confinement of her bedroom. Despite the fact that this action is no longer done in this room, they still are not expressing their love opening as this kiss is done where no one can see. Both the Object and Callie are afraid to openly express their love as it goes against societies norms, and if they rare to go against them they will be shun. In the case of Lucentio's love for Bianca, it becomes forbidden love as he has to battle against many in order to obtain her love. Since the other suitors are also offering Bianca lessons, it forces him to have to share her with the others. The other suitors, become Lucentio's major obstacle as he can not have Bianca for himself since he has to share her with the others and run the risk of her falling in love with them. Both Callie and Lucentio face different obstacles that prevent them from obtaining their true desire ranging from other people and society.