This paper discusses Aime Cesaire's postcolonial adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest titled A Tempest. The student analyzes some of the major differences between the two works, noting that Cesaire portrays Caliban as a stronger rebel who uses abusive language against Prospero. While Shakespeare's play ends in order, Cesaire does not follow any order and has Caliban singing of freedom even after the others leave the island. The paper also examines how The Tempest has been defined as a postcolonial play that depicts issues of colonialism and cultural hybridity.

1. PaperNo.10
Name:- Sanjaykumar N Jogadiya.
Subject:- The Postcolonial Literature
Topic:- A Tempest: Aime Cesaire (postcolonial impact)
 Part:- M.A. Sem-3
RollNo.24,
EnrollmentNo:-2069108420200017
 Email Id:- snjogadiya@amail.com
 Submitted:- Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English MK
Bhavnagar University.

2. Postcolonial impact
• A Tempest by Aime Cesaire which was the
retailing of Shakespearean The tempest is very
much significant in postcolonial literarure. He
changed the story and gives it postcolonial
look. There are so many major differences.
• The one is Ariel, the slave of Prospero is
mulatto. Shakespearean Tempest fails in many
terms like, resistence by Caliban is failing,
Prospero represent colonialism at its worst,
there are limitations to Caliban.

3. • But Cesaire changed the whole concept by making
Caliban as a strong rebel. The way he is talking with
Prospero is not polite. He used very abusive words.
He got all the qualities of a good rebel as described
by Albert Camus in his book "Rebel".
• Shakespearean Tempest ended in order but Cesaire
not following any order and in end when all gone
from island, Prospero and Caliban remains. Caliban
is singing the song of freedom and never allowed
Prospero to take his land.

4. Defined by Shakespeare as a
postcolonial play
• “Colonized is presented in relation to a cultural
hybrid in which the self and others apply the
colonial experience” primarily being a post-
colonial play it often has issues that arose with
its contemporaries, such as depiction issues.
• Darkness whose idea or connection to the
issue of Polish deportation experiences of
colonization is also connected, for example,
Joseph Conard, and he wrote on his experience
of being a colonist the heart of darkness.

5. • He said black identities are largely part of whites that
control immigrants. Another example is Robinson Cruz by
Daniel Defoe, the Black Man (slave) whose name was
Friday.
• Shakespeare's plays and works are often read as examples
of high humanistic morality, which are decisive
representations of the morality of divinity. Such as
moments of forgiveness, practices of brotherhood, etc.
• But part of that counter on the other side of it is that
those works can be seen very nicely. Which Shakespeare
does not have. His plays are very problematic, confusing
and even anti-traditional.

6. Ending
• The Tempest is read as a play of regeneration. It’s a
very traditional way of reading a hurricane. Therefore,
the question should be raised, does forgiveness mean
reconciliation?
• People often confuse forgiveness with compromise, as
if it were the same thing. They are not. Compromise is
the final step in the forgiveness process, but it’s the
“cherry on top” - and an added bonus when it happens.
... It takes two people to compromise, but only one to
forgive.