Katherine is comparing an angry or “moved” woman to an unbalanced fountain, almost agitated. She’s muddy, unpleasant, and lacks the beauty seen in most graceful, peaceful fountains. Katherine explains that no one could ever touch a fountain in this condition, much like a husband being disappointed in his unwilling wife. This first and foremost reveals that men living in this era are used to getting what they want, and women serve it to them on a golden platter. Petruchio wants Katherine to be submissive, and Katherine eventually complies. Katherine believes a rebellious or a woman contrary to a docile attitude, becomes useless. The active woman becomes foul water no one can use, not because men don’t want to have anything to do with that sort of woman, but that they cannot, if they wish to uphold the expectations of masculinity of the time period. Men are unable to work the same way and be successful if women didn’t do what they’ve seemingly always done- be compliant to the man’s every need and watch more domestic matters. Being foul is the most selfish act, because no one can use the woman. A contaminated woman disrupts society in Elizabethan England. By the play’s final act, the audience can see that Petruchio’s torture methods of “taming” Katherine as a shrew, have succeeded. In this final speech, Kate believes every word she speaks, ““thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, / thy head thy sovereign, one that cares for thee” (V.ii.153), the first three things reflect the views of a marriage in the sixteenth and seventeenth century which Kate now also agrees with. Overcoming her shrewishness, according to this idea, is a triumph for Kate because it allows her to be happy. Contrary to her initial resistance, Kate seems to view her marriage as a chance to find harmony within this prescribed social role, ultimately implying that we should find a new sort of subservient happiness within the roles to which we are assigned, and that women should subjugate themselves to their husbands as well as men in general.