Taming of the shrew homework

I choose Baptista for analyzing one of the characters in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Baptista is a flat and static character. He doesn’t really changed or have huge impact on the story. However, he is the father of the two main female characters and he made story go forward (another word, he made story flows) by setting the rule that Katharina must get married before Bianca. He doesn’t really have any secrets or doesn’t provide any information that other characters may not know. However, he is rich.
His name is significant because I think he symbolizes old conservative church at Shakespeare time. Well, I think also Shakespeare wants to slightly criticize church through Baptista. He is conservative in a way that makes Katharina get married before Bianca. And also he tried to convince other people to marry Katharina by money other than try to change Katharina’s behavior. And I think this is related to church selling indulgence to heaven for money rather than truly work on religion like what church suppose to do.