What evidence does the author provide to support the claim that Shakespeare's works reflect the world and ourselves?

In order to support his argument that the works of Shakespeare represent the world and ourselves, Mack offers proof that Macbeth represents himself as excessively optimistic and obsessed with social status.

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as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.