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Paper11,post colonial literature
1. Topic: compare and contrast of the character of
Caliban in ‘’The Tempest ‘’and ‘’A Tempest
Name: Deepti Joshi M
Paper: Post-colonial studies
2. The Tempest
A Tempest
1.Caliben having no
power
1.Caliban having Power
2.Having no language
2.Having language
3.Presented as Colonial
Caliban
3.Shifts perspective from
colonial to post colonia
3. The Tempest
4.Presented as more
brutal and as monster
5.symbolised as primitive
humanity
6.his enslavement is
because of his own
character
A Tempest
4.presented as
colonized with more
aggression
5.symbolised as third
world country
6.enslavement caused by
their race
4. The Tempest
8.In The tempest, Caliban
tacitly admits his attempt
to rape Miranda.
A Tempest
8.In cesaire’s play A
tempest
H e attributes his alleged
attempted rape of
Miranda to in Prospero's
language‘’Rape ,Rape , Rape,
listen you old goat You
are the one that put
those dirty thought in my
head”
5. The Tempest
9.Accepts his dominated
subjectivity
The Tempest
9.His intense feeling of
alienation for his
dominated subjectivity.
10.Do not seek for freedom, 10.Seeking more for his
not aware about the role freedom, knows how to use
of language
language.
6. 11.
In both the dramas, Caliban asks for Stephano and Trinculo to
be his new Master
‘’Well! you see, this Island belonged to me except that a man
named Prospero cheated me of it. I'm perfectly willing to give
you my right to it, but the fact is you will have to fight Prospero
for it’’
It’s Significant Difference
In cesaire’s play Caliban realizes that if again he will trust on
OTHER than again another Prospero will come to empower
over him and again has to live a life of slave, a black slave.
