‘Ariel is a resentful mulatto’. Compare and contrast the character sketch of Ariel in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ and Cesaire’s ‘A Tempest’.

• Topic : ‘Ariel is a resentful mulatto’. Compare and contrast the character sketch of Ariel in

Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ and Cesaire’s ‘A Tempest’.

• Name : Kinjal Patel• Paper Name: The Postcolonial Literature

• Paper No: 11• Sem : 3• Roll No: 16

• Gmail id: [email protected]://www.slideshare.net/123kinjal

• Submitted to: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

Introduction

• William Shakespeare • He was an English poet

• Greatest writer in English language

• Pre eminent dramatist

• England's national poet

• Translated into every major living language.

• Amie Fernand David Cesaire• Was a

Francophone poet, author and politician from Martinique.

• “ One of the founders of the negritude movement in Francophone literature”.

Amie Cesaire’s and Shakespeare ‘s works

Ariel quotes

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are Pearls that were his

eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea changeInto something rich and strange.( Act 1 scene 2, 396- 401) , Ariel

• “ I have a different idea of a universal”.

• Cesaire explained to his former communist comrade-

• “It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, co-existence of them all”.

Cesaire’ s belief

• ‘ A Tempest’ is a politicized take on Shakespeare’s play created during the late Sixties.

• ‘ Post colonial response to ‘ The Tempest’ and as such deals much more with the story from the point of view of Caliban and Ariel.

• Caliban is a black slave • Spirit Ariel is represented

as a mulatto slave

• Caliban’s race and subsequent treatment

• Ariel in his role as the willing servant.

• Better treated but still a captive,

•Willing servant

• Ariel : Nevertheless, I’ve at least achieved one thing! He’s promised me my freedom. In the distant future of course, but it’s the first time he’s promised.

• Ariel : It’s no use trying to resist, young man. My master is a sorcerer: neither your passion nor your youth can prevail against him, your best course would be to follow and obey him.

• May be Ariel was not willing to be a slave but the hope of freedom and fear of being crushed by power made him to serve Prospero in A Tempest.

Hope of freedom

Conclusion

• Ariel was the spirit who willingly helped Prospero in The Tempest.

• But in A Tempest it seems his helplessness that forced him to serve Prospero as he had no other option.