This document provides a comparison of William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" and Aime Cesaire's postcolonial adaptation "A Tempest". It notes that Shakespeare's original was written in 1610 and focuses on the character Prospero, while Cesaire's version from 1969 shifts the perspective to the colonized characters of Caliban and Ariel. The summary identifies some of the major differences between the two works, such as Caliban having power and a language in "A Tempest" versus being powerless and without language in "The Tempest". It also overviewed Cesaire's changes to characters like Prospero, Ariel, and the ending of the story.

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

2. William Shakespeare Aime Cesaire
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TheTempest ATempest
Written by Shakespeare
At 1610-11
In 5 acts
Black verse and prose
Native knowledge
system
Written by Aime Cesaire
At 1969 published
In French language
A Tempest is post
colonial revision of
William shakespeare’s
the tempest

3. TheTempest ATempest

4. 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
THETEMPEST ATEMPEST

5.  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

6. 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 ATempest Prospero lived there

7. TheTempest ATempest

8. A Comparison of The and A

9. Explain of The and A
 TheTempest is one ofWilliam
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 spiritAriel, 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.

10.  Aime Cesaire's ATempest 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 toThe
Tempest " and as such deals much more with
the story from the point of view of Caliban
and Ariel .

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