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| averagejoel 12/12/19 8:07:10 AM #76: | vigorm0rtis posted... That it was about racism... which is kind of absurd just within the text, but if he were to do a tiny bit of historical research or even compared it to other texts within Shakespeare's plays, he'd actually have evidence that it wasn't so.was it actually that it was "about racism" or are you ignoring nuance in what he was talking about? shakespeare certainly intended for race to be an important part of the story, and it is indeed a significant part of what the play is about. It's ok to have a notion of what a work of fiction means to you, but the hot second you try to sell that as what it's actually about is the second people should stop taking your seriously. Fiction is about what the author intended it to be about. Everything else is masturbation.that is false. fiction can be about many different things in different contexts also, I take issue with you framing it as though people are trying to argue about what it "means" -- that doesn't really have anything to do with literary analysis --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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