This chapter analyses the character of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew by utilizing Petteri Pietikainen’s theoretical concept, psychological utopia: ‘a form of utopian thought in which the attainment of an ideal state of consciousness requires the employment of psychological insights and methods that are effective in transforming human personality and, thereby, the whole society of culture’. The ambiguity of the word, u-topia/eu-topia, suggests both ‘no place at all’ and ‘a good place’. In the beginning, Katherine is in a psychological and societal ‘no place’; she knows that women suffer from social powerlessness, which is why she rebels by refusing to be a pawn in the patriarchal game of father-suitor haggling. In doing so, she is deemed a nonsensical shrew, a despised and fierce virago—a social outcast. However, by accepting marriage to Petruchio, she is unwillingly thrust on a journey during which she undergoes psychological illumination: how to achieve a place for herself in society as a woman whose words are finally heard. Katherine discovers that she can manipulate the system and pursue power by strategically pretending to embrace patriarchal female subjugation while simultaneously creating a space of utopian possibilities.