Do you know how boring Shakespeare is? Mack who is the author of the article "Why read Shakespeare?" is trying to persuade college freshmen to take Shakespeare instead of other courses. Mack produced an ineffective argument that does not persuade college freshmen that reading Shakespeare is worth the effort, through his use of audience appeal and text structure.
First off Mack does not use an effective argument to persuade the college freshmen to take Shakespeare. Although this is my opinion I do have some support that can back me up. (Lines 9-13) These lines basically state that music at first may be catchy but after awhile it gets old. This evidence helps support the fact that Shakespeare is nothing like music. Music is more smooth, less complex, and easier to understand. (Line 31) This line uses the vocab word "truncated" instead of an easier word to use and understand such as the word shortened. This would not appeal to a crowd of College freshmen that is clearly younger than him. Unless the crowd is nothing but genius prodigies some or most probably wont know what the word even means.…show more content… (line 54) "What would my bowling buddies say?" Most people in this day and age do not actually have a buddy designated to go bowling with and would not understand what he means by this, as I myself did not even know what this meant. (lines 85 – 88) " In the case of Macbeth, we have a supreme reflection of ambition. But what makes the play terrifying is not that Macbeth looks like a fascist dictator but he looks like us." Mack uses Macbeth as an example but if most people haven't taken Shakespeare how would they know who that is or even what he looks like, which is absolutely possible with todays
