Topic : Comparison between 'A Tempest' and 'The Tempest'

Name : Pandya Dharmishtha D.

Paper No. : 11 (The Post-Colonial Literature)

Class : M.A Sem- 3

Banch : 2015-17

Roll No.: 22

Email Id: pandyadharmishtha510@gmail.com

Submitted by : Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English M.K. Bhavnagar University

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William Shakespear5 actsAime Cesaire3 actsFrench proseBlank Verse and proseTempest Native knowledge systemColonial modernityV/S

The clash of knowledge system

Aime Cesaire

A Tempest (1969) is a play by Aime Cesaire.

William Shakespear

The Tempest William Shekspear's play, written around the year 1610.

A Tempest by Aime Cesaire

Cesaire a renowned poet, essayist and playwright.

A Tempest, translated- French to English, stunning masterpiece.

The author- insightful views on the psychology behind Prospero and Caliban's action.

Cesaire's version: the themes of colonialism and Negritude

A Tempest

It is really a post colonial response to The Tempest

As such deal with the story from the point of view of Caliban and Ariel

This adaptation for a black theatre follows the main lines of Shakespear's plot

But there are significant changes

The translation simplifies and shortens the original

Ariel and Caliban argue about modes of resistance:

Ariel pleads for non-violence

Where Ariel, a mulatto, slave, attempts to win over his master and Caliban speaks outright and demands.

Conti....

In the Masque, the figure of Eshu, appears 'a god to his friends, a devil to his enemies' and sings obscene song

Despite Ariel's waening, prospero orders the arrest of Calian and his fellow conspirators.

Gonzalo attempts to convert Caliban to Christianity but fails

Introducing the figure of Eshu and making Prospero's oppression more obviosly racial

The Tempest

He is the protagonist and central character

Prospero is the Duke of Milan

Father of Miranda, Master of Ariel and Caliban

Mediterranean island

Twelve years ago Prospero lost the dukedom of Milan to his scheming brother Antonio.

Was put out to sea with his 3 years daughter

They live on an isolated island

Two slaves, the spirit Ariel and the Caliban

Using his magic power

Prospero causes the ship in which Antonio is travelling with the king of Naples and his son to be wretched on the island.

Conti......

The kings son Ferdinand encounters Prospero and falls in love with Miranda.

The king himself is about to be murdered by the treacherous Antonio

Caliban meets with two sailors and together they plot the downfall of Prospero

At last, Prospero takes his leave of his magic powers

Gives blessing to the marriage of Miranda and Ferdinand

He then prepares to return in the magically restored ship to resume his rule in Milan.

Treatment - Natives

He is polite in The Tempest and Rude in A Tempest.

He occupies the land in both

Shekspeare's The Tempest in order to debate colonial politics.

The major change in the plot, that Prospero regards it as his duty to remain behind on the island.

Suggest that however futile his gesture, whites and blacks will have to develop some form of mutually supportive relationship rather than remain antagonists.

In Shakespear's 'The Tempest', Prospero leaves at the end, but in Cesaire's 'A Tempest', Caliban and Prospero lives there, at the end Prospero grants Ariel his freedom, but retains control of that island and of Caliban

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