Analyze Hortensio's feelings when he suspects Bianca may be interested in Lucentio. Explain whether his response complicates or simplifies the Bianca subplot.

Hortensio feels that he is being rejected and lacks Bianca's attention and interest. Although he feels unmotivated to court her, he does not intend to insist on trying to make her fall in love with him because he feels proud and does not even want to be put behind. However, he realizes that Bianca directs her full attention to Lucentio and that she is happy and delighted beside him. In this case, he decides to look for another wife and this facilitates Bianca's subplot because she won't have to worry about Hortensio disturbing the romance that is growing between her and Lucentio.

Explanation:

Although you did not present the text to which this question refers, we can consider, through the names of the characters and the context of the question, that you are referring to the play "The Taming of the Shrew" written by Shakespeareque tells the story from Katherina, a beautiful and wealthy girl who has no suitor because she behaves like a shrew, driving all men away. Katherina has a younger sister, Bianca who wants to get married and has suitors, but the girls' father says that Bianca can only get married after Katherina is married.

Bianca has two suitors, Hortensio and Lucentio. As her father does not allow an engagement to be established, the two suitors became Bianca's teachers, in an attempt to try to make her fall in love with them. Lucentio, the Latin teacher manages to win the attention of Bianca and it is easy to see that the girl is in love with him. Hortensio, the music teacher, perceives Bianca's feeling for Lucentio, since she is more interested in Latin than in music and is neither attentive nor enchanted by Hortensio. Although he is unmotivated by the rejection, he decides to look for another girl, with whom he can marry, which facilitates the romance between Bianca and Lucentio to grow.

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