He represents the 'truth' about human beings. No, Shakespeare presents how human beings are, genuinely. Shakespeare does not tell us that there is a hero who has all the good that exists in the world and then there is a villain who is an epitome of evil. Back then, what he saw, he put that forth through his characters. He focuses on the human emotions and presents both, the cruel and the kind side of human beings without sugar-coating anything. To me, Shakespeare "represents" human beings through his art of characterization. The reason lies in Bloom's way of being biased at over-glorifying William Shakespeare. I do not chime with his idea and specifically the statement, "Shakespeare will go on explaining us, in part because he invented us…" When I read Bloom's book, what popped up in my mind was the phrase "God is dead" and that Shakespeare is the new god. Bardolatory, this is, and Harold Bloom-A bardolator. No matter how great this makes Shakespeare as an entity wholly skilled in his work, saying that Shakespeare "invented" us is entirely a hyperbolic statement. It is as if his work was written for people of all places and all ages. What gives his work this universal appeal are the themes and the subject matter. Complex and simple at the same time, William Shakespeare is known for the "Universality" of his work.
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