Characterization of the 'Caliban' in 'The Tempest' and 'A Tempest'

• Class: M.A. Sem-3• Roll No.: 28• Paper No. 11 : The Postcolonial Literature• Enrollment No.: PG 14101019• Prepared By : Vaishali Hareshbhai Jasoliya • Email – ID: jasoliyavaishali@gmail.com• Submitted To: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Characterization of ‘Caliban’ in ‘The Tempest’ & ‘A Tempest’

Post-Colonial Literature

Colonialism – The control and governing influence of a nation over a dependent country , territory or people.

Post-Colonialism – Means after colonialism. Post-colonialism is the study of a culture after a physical and political withdrawal of an oppressive power.

Colonizer people

Colonized people

Character of CalibanThe Tempest A Tempest

The Tempest• It is written by

William Shakespeare.

• Written in 1610 and 1611.

• In English Language.

A Tempest• It is written by Aime

Cesaire.• Published in 1969.• In French Language.• A Tempest is a

postcolonial revision of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Character of Caliban

Caliban, a villainous Island native, the deformed son of a

witch named Sycorax, who ruled the Island before

Prospero arrived. He now works as Prospero’s slave but despises him. In the play, he is

known to have said many colourful curses.

The Tempest A Tempest

Character of Caliban

• Caliban having no power.• Having no Language.• Presented an Colonial

Caliban.• Presented as more brutal

and as monster.• Symbolized as primitive

humanity.• His enslavement is because

of his own character.

• Caliban having power.• Having Language.• Shifts perspective from

colonial to post colonial.• Presented as colonized

with more aggression.• Symbolized as third

world country.• Enslavement caused by

their race.

The Tempest A TempestImage of Caliban

The Tempest A Tempest

Character of Caliban

• Caliban tacitly admits his attempt to rape Miranda.

• Accepts his dominated subjectivity.

• Do not seek for freedom, not aware about the role of language.

• He attributes his alleged attempted rape of Miranda to in Prospero's language.

• His intense feeling of isolation for his dominated subjectivity.

• Seeking more for his freedom, knows how to use language.

The Tempest• Have no Language,

Wanted to be slave.

• Have no ability to speak.

• No Objection with his slavery.

A Tempest• Caliban greets Prospero by

saying “Uhuru!”, the Swahili word for “freedom.” Caliban favors revolution

• Caliban often speaks in his native language.

• Caliban tells Prospero that he no longer wants to be called Caliban.

Character of Caliban

• A Tempest" by Aime Cesaire is a play based largely on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with only a few changes.

• Cesaire's version of this play explores the original concepts in further depth by incorporating the themes of colonialism and Negritude which Cesaire studied extensively.

• "A Tempest" addresses modernist issues and theories through the utilization of a classic play that most modern readers are familiar with.

Conclusion