- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This line, perhaps the best-known of the entire Discourse on Colonialism, is Césaire’s attempt to distill the violence of colonialism down to its central principle: colonization is the conversion of people into things. This is what makes it immoral, allows it to proceed, and ultimately leads to its collapse.
First, Europe’s “thingification” of the people it colonized is the essence of what makes its colonialism evil: by denying the humanity of people under its control, Europe justified any and all violence against them. In other words, it created a hierarchy of human life and placed white Europeans at the…