1. Name- Rudrika Gohel
Sem: 3
Batch: 2017-2019
Enrollment No: 2069108420180015
Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU
Email Id: rudrikagohel97@gmail.com
Paper No: 9
2. Caliban- may inspired by Roman
Language
means black or with blackness
Contrasting
Speaking against power
Mouthpiece of Amie Ceraire
3. “Uhuru”
“ugly ape!”
“an old vulture with a scrawny
neck”.
“Freedom now!”
“Better death than humiliation
and injustice”
4. Rejection of Prospero’s language
“You didn't teach me a thing! Except to jabber in
your own language so that I could understand your
orders: chop the wood, wash the dishes, fish for
food, plant vegetables, all because you're too lazy
to do it yourself” (Act I, Scene 2).
5. Monstrous villain, slave
Degrading Language shows his
inferiority
Psychical punishment and trauma,
evokes sympathy
Menacing and Provocative Language
illustrates his defiance to Prospero
6. His name is an anagram of ‘Cannibal’
Ultimately associate with flash-eating savages
Compelled to speak Language of civilization
7. Michel Foucault argues that certain
authorities who possess power in society
produce knowledge about those who lack
power
8. Dark flash… wild and ragged
Brutal- perception
Often played with physical deformity
The diverse range of presentation of Caliban
illustrates the complexity of his character
9. Rejection of the Name and Language
“Canibal” by Prospero- representational
politics of the colonizers about the colonized.
Vocal resistance
10. Through the characterization of Caliban, writer
demythifies the age old myths about theAfricans
as savage, animalistic, lustful and childlike people
and tries to portray them as they are
