1. Character of Caliban in A Tempest and
The Tempest
Name- Budhiditya Shankar Das
Course- M.A. (English)
Paper No.- 11
Roll No.- 07
Sem- 03
Email Id- budhiditya900@gmail.com
Submitted to- Smt.S.B.Gardi
Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University
2. COLONIALISM
Control and governing influence of a nation over a
dependent country, territory or people.
POST COLONIALISM
Means after Colonialism. It is the study of a culture
after a physical and political withdrawal of an
oppressive power.
4. Character of Caliban
The Tempest A Tempest
-> It is written by William
Shakespeare.
-> It is written by Aime
Cesaire.
-> Written in 1610 and
1611.
-> Published in 1969.
->In English Language.
->In French Language.
->A Tempest is a
Postcolonial revision
of William
Shakespeare’s The
Tempest
5. ->Caliban, a villainous Island native, the
deformed son of a witch named Sycarax, 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.
6. Character of Caliban
The Tempest A Tempest
->Caliban having no
power.
->Caliban having power.
->Having no Language. ->Having Language.
->Presented an Colonial
Caliban.
->Presented as more brutal
and as monster.
->Symbolized as primitive
humanity.
->His enslavement is because
of his own character.
->Shifts perspective from
Colonial to Post Colonial.
->Presented as colonized
with more aggression.
->Symbolized as third
world country.
->Enslavement caused by
their race.
8. THE TEMPEST
->Written by William Shakespeare
->Son of Sycarax
->Real native of the Island
->“Savage and deformed slave”
->Less resistance and uses Prospero's language
->Plays the role of discourse of Colonialisms.
9.
10. A TEMPEST
-> Written by Aime Cesaire
-> Raises voice against his
white master Prospero
-> Expressed his thought more
emotionally and descriptively
-> Alienation from his own
Identity
-> Opposes against Prospero
-> Journey to gain freedom
under Prospero’s rule
11. -> Caliban in the central figure. Caliban’s name is
probably an anagram of “ Cannibal”.
-> Caliban, a half-monster, son of Sycarax and
enslaved by Prospero’s magic.
-> He was treated kindly and taught to speak by
Prospero and his daughter, but fell from grace when
he attempted to rape Miranda.
12. -> Notion of Monster
-> The implication is that the natural and instinctively,
without any of the controls of social or moral order.
Caliban is then denounced as “a thing most brutish”.
The attempt by Prospero and Miranda to teach
Caliban to talk fluently produces the second affecting
note in the portrayal of Caliban. It is a sentence of
Caliban’s which is typically Shakespearean in its
brevity and compressed meaning.
“You taught me language; my profit on it is, I
know how to curse”.
13. -> The Colonising analogy is not so much with
Prospero. Caliban’s relationships as it is with the
perversely “civilised” influence of Stephano and
Trinculo, who are Europeans, on the ‘servant-
monster’.
-> Character of Caliban has a certain pathos.
14. -> Poetry
-> Caliban’s relation with Stephano and Trinculo
->Caliban’s character may be attributed to two
factors which makes his ultimate repentance more
plausible; he is not entirely a beast, but shows
throughout a potential for finer things. This
alternations between the time and the gross sides of
Caliban is a sort of link between the Noble and the
ignoble characters.
15. -> The monster is based on the wicked spirit type in
the Italian pastoral, though Cesaire
develops him to a considerable extent. He is an
elemental, earthbound man, without a
soul, but with a direct and shrewd natural
intelligence.
-> Language
16. Conclusion
-> 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.
