NAME :- PRAFUL GHARENIYACLASS :- M.A. SEM 3TOPIC :- A COMPARISON AND DIFFERENCE OF SHAKESPEARE'S "THE TEMPEST" AND CESAIRE'S "A TEMPEST" PAPER NO :- 11PAPER :- THE POSTCOLONIAL LITERATUREROLL NO :- 20YEAR :- 2015 - 2016ENROLLMENT NO :- SUBMITTED :- DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY, BHAVNAGAR

William Shakespeare Aime Cesaire

The Tempest A Tempest

Written by ShakespeareAt 1610-11In 5 acts

Black verse and prose

Native knowledge system

Written by Aime Cesaire

At 1969 publishedIn French language A Tempest is post colonial revision of

William shakespeare’s the

tempest

The Tempest A Tempest

Difference between THE and A

Caliban having no power Have no language Presented as colonial

Caliban Presented as moral

brutal and as monster Symbolized as primitive

humanity Accepts his dominated

subjectivity Do not seek for freedom Have no language

Caliban having power Having language Shift perspective from colonial

to post colonial Presented as colonized Presented as colonized with

more aggression Symbolized third world

country His intense feeling of alienation

for his dominated subjectivity. Seeking for his freedom Saying UHURU means freedom

have language

THE TEMPEST A TEMPEST

No objection with his slavery

Antagonist Half human and half

slave Weak Obedient Follow order

Tell Prospero that he no longer want to be called Caliban

Protagonist Black slave Powerful Disobedient Refuse to follow order

Major changes A Tempest Ariel as a Mulatto Rebel of Caliban Character of Prospero Character of Eshu changing in end in the end the tempest Prospero

leaves the island and in A Tempest Prospero lived there

The Tempest A Tempest

A Comparison of The and A

Explain of The and A

The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare's final plays, written around the year 1610 and considered to represent the "culmination of his career". Centered around a deposed ruler, Prospero, the play takes place exclusively on a distant island after the ship carrying the King of Naples encounters a powerful storm and the crew is forced to abandon the vessel. We find out that this is caused by the spirit Ariel, a servant of Prospero's. This in fact marks the beginning of a series of actions by Prospero to manipulate the other characters in the play towards his own end. 

Aime Cesaire's A Tempest is a politicized take on Shakespeare's play created during the late sixties, a time of great social change. It is really a "postcolonial response to The Tempest " and as such deals much more with the story from the point of view of Caliban and Ariel .

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