Milo Kramer

Moreover, Desdemona's whiteness, in contrast, is repeatedly presented as innately good, innocent, and desirable. That's one essay you could write that would get an A. The other essay you could write that would also get an A goes, no, Othello is not super racist. Othello is a flawed attempt at anti-racism. In that, it's Shakespeare's only play to center a dynamic black protagonist.

Moreover, Desdemona's whiteness, in contrast, is repeatedly presented as innately good, innocent, and desirable. That's one essay you could write that would get an A. The other essay you could write that would also get an A goes, no, Othello is not super racist. Othello is a flawed attempt at anti-racism. In that, it's Shakespeare's only play to center a dynamic black protagonist.

The play was banned in apartheid South Africa for depicting an interracial relationship. Moreover, The play's most prejudiced characters are always presented as either stupid, Rodrigo, or evil, Iago. It would be a mistake to conflate the perspectives of these characters with the meanings of the work as a whole.

The play was banned in apartheid South Africa for depicting an interracial relationship. Moreover, The play's most prejudiced characters are always presented as either stupid, Rodrigo, or evil, Iago. It would be a mistake to conflate the perspectives of these characters with the meanings of the work as a whole.

Either of those essays would get As, Divya, but what your teacher's reductive yes or no prompt does not allow for is an essay that's like what I think I think. which is something like, Othello is a product and reflection of another culture, Elizabethan England, 400 years old, written at a time when race was just being invented as a system of power.

Either of those essays would get As, Divya, but what your teacher's reductive yes or no prompt does not allow for is an essay that's like what I think I think. which is something like, Othello is a product and reflection of another culture, Elizabethan England, 400 years old, written at a time when race was just being invented as a system of power.

The play later became a cultural export of the British Empire, which colonized black and brown people around the world. The play remains a best seller of the Shakespeare industrial complex. In other words, Divya, Othello and racism are so indelibly linked. that the question, is Othello racist, seems to confuse both what racism is and what artworks are.

The play later became a cultural export of the British Empire, which colonized black and brown people around the world. The play remains a best seller of the Shakespeare industrial complex. In other words, Divya, Othello and racism are so indelibly linked. that the question, is Othello racist, seems to confuse both what racism is and what artworks are.

In my opinion, what's really racist, Divya, is that we are required to read Othello for the billionth time, that it's on the curriculum at your Brooklyn public high school, even though the play is boring, when we could be reading any number of contemporary black playwrights. Divya responds, don't hate me, but I kinda liked reading Othello.

In my opinion, what's really racist, Divya, is that we are required to read Othello for the billionth time, that it's on the curriculum at your Brooklyn public high school, even though the play is boring, when we could be reading any number of contemporary black playwrights. Divya responds, don't hate me, but I kinda liked reading Othello.

The story is really crazy and the language is really pretty.

The story is really crazy and the language is really pretty.