was seen as mandatory and women held an inferior stature in society as they were seen to be incapable of high significance. For such women as Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew who cannot achieve this because of how shrewd she acts this was a struggle. In the Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare has gone against these conventions by using the character Katherina
In the play, The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare, men use language to strip women of their power. To take their power away, they compare women to nature. Men also treat women as if they were the opposite of men, by calling them froward, the opposite of forward, a word commonly used to describe men. Finally, men take power away from women by expecting women to obey their husbands' every word. The ideal woman, from the perspective of a man, is an educated servant with good looks, and is their puppet