Name: Vora HirvaTopic: Comparison of Shakespeare’s

“The Tempest”and Aime Cesaire’s “A tempest”

What is post- colonial literature?

• Definition: “ all the cultures affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonialism to the present day.

• Post colonial literature that has representative of imperior power and its dominance.

Tribals•No tradition or class!

Mulato•Half black half white Caliban•Slave who wants to establish superiority on authoruty !

A major difference between colonialism and post-colonialism

Comparison and contrast

• The process of colonialism into post-colonialism and rewriting !

• Slave-master relationship, colonized colonizer.

• Magic and witchcraft – one of the major characteristics of both the writers Shakespeare and Aime Cesaire.

• Establishment of dominance on political utopian place.

• Use of magic powers for the good purposes.• Supremacy over the natural world by holy

magic.• Desire for knowledge and survival v/s desire

for social status.

Nature of Prospero and Caliban.

• Shakespeare considers Prospero as a powerful man: “who can’try to th’ sea”.

• Shakespeare writes: Transformed/ And rapt in secret studies’ and his library a ‘dukedom large enough’!

• Prospero uses Caliban as a slave and an economic labour: ‘ we cannot miss him. He does make our fire, /fetch in our wood, and serves in office/that profit us’.

• In ‘ The Tempest Prospero’s magic plays vital role. In ‘ A Tempest’ Prospero tries to control Caliban but there is much attention on Caliban’s way of defying Prospero’s authority!

• Example: ‘You think I’m ugly…well, I don’t think you’re so handsome yourself. With that big hooked nose, you look like some old vulture. An old vulture with a scrawny neck’!

Thank you!