/lit/ - Literature

Is Othello a racist play?

Seems like the most irrational, aggressive and abusive character is Othello, who happens to be a moor. While all the other characters are calm and collected.

What was Shakespeare trying to tell us?

>>5735750
>>5735727

your bigoted views are not welcome here, we believe in freedom of speech, literature and rationalism.

>>5727519

no point to suicide mate. you were already in the "lifeless" state for 14billion years, and look what good that did you....

nothing can protect you against life, nothing did...suicide just means you'll re-roll the dice.

And unless your life is absolute shit-tier cancer tumors all over your body bad then I wouldn't roll the dice.

>>5718890

No
>Kant
>Nietzsche
>Descartes, Pascal,
>Fichte, Schelling, Schiller
>Hegel
>Heidegger
>Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Epictetus, Avicenna, Diogenes, etc..
>Mill, Berkeley, leibniz
>Hobbes

....

>>5702580

Prejudice?

>>5698023

It should be obvious within the first 10mins or so

Why is it so difficult to find Gore Vidal's book Myra Breckinridge anywhere?