The characters and the story are complex so the reader does not fully understand what is happening. Mack says that to understand Shakespeare we must read the plays over and over until we get it.
2. Mack says when you fully understand Shakespeare you start to realize things about yourself through his stories and you learn more things about the world around you. Also, that trying to understand Shakespeare will prepare you for the struggles you will face later in life.
3. Learning about yourself- You can reflect your feelings through characters in Shakespeare in characters like Macbeth and Hamlet and that many of our own ideas originated from Shakespeare's writings.
.A time for exploring- you can use Shakespeare as a way to find yourself. Also, as you are able to understand the complicated characters of Shakespeare you will be able to understand the complicated people in your own life with more clarity. It can also prepare you for when you go out on your own in the world later in life.
A different take on skills-He argues that while you need your specific job skills for your job you will probably not stay in the same job throughout your whole life, so throughout life you will need these basic skills that can transfer from job to job that you can learn from reading Shakespeare.
Their is knowledge and their is knowledge- through reading Shakespeare your heart and mind will become closer to each other and become closer to a cohesive unit. This is because through reading Shakespeare you will be able to understand more things about the heart.
A time for developing interests-Through reading Shakespeare you will slowly adapt to liking it. He compared it to listening to new music you might not like it at first but after a while you could enjoy it. While at the same the same time he understands Shakespeare is hard to understand at first.
4. Out all of his arguments the one I aligned myself the most with was the basic skills because I do learn important themes about life through Shakespeare's plays. For example in Macbeth I get a good look in how bad being greedy can be and how it can ruin whole nations. As well as the power of love through plays like Romeo and Juliet.
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