There are many ways Shakespeare and Plath show the strength of feeling of woman. The ways they do it is very different though, Shakespeare does it through plays such as taming of the shrew, and Plath does it through her poems that she writes.  In both of these sources, the women get their point across very strongly. We know that they are angry with the way woman are treated, and that is very understandable as woman were a minority. - William Shakespeare shows the strength and felling of woman through a character in his play The Taming of the Shrew. He manages to put this character called Katherina in certain situations to show her opinion about the way people lived at that time. The Taming of the Shrew is a play about a man marrying or taming a woman, but the woman is very stubborn and hard headed and isn't afraid to share her opinion, this is Katherina, and she is the shrew that needs to be tamed. Katherina isn't afraid to protect herself and is very independent. She protects herself from male attention by saying "best beware my sting". She says this as she is being referred to as an animal, but in a sexual way as Petruchio is saying that the wasp's sting is her backside. Katherina meant that she could hurt Petruchio as that is what wasps do when they protect themselves. This also suggests that she doesn't like woman being referred to as animals as she