- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
The narrator has learned that his segregation policy is already starting to improve life in Dickens. He is at a meeting of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals, where the members are discussing whether on some level slavery was worth it because they would rather be born in the present-day United States than in Africa. This infuriates the narrator, and in this passage he emphasizes how ridiculous the Intellectuals’ reasoning is.
The narrator’s anger is palpable in this quotation, which is one of the most serious moments in the novel. While he arguably exaggerates the position of the Intellectuals for comic…