What evidence does the author provide to support the claim that shakespeare's work reflect the world andourselves?

Mack provides the evidence that Macbeth reflects ourselves, as overly ambitious and concerned with social status, to support his claim that Shakespeare's works reflect the world and ourselves.

Explanation:

“Why Read Shakespeare” By Michael Mack is an Expository/Argumentative Speech where he explains how the line of writing and the development of characters of Shakespeare's play are in fact highly easy to relate to our current society and the constant human behavior in different kinds of social interaction since they project the human traits of personality.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

explanation:

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."