Colonialism means The policy or practice of equiring full or partial
political control over another country, exploding it economically.
Colonialism:
Conquest + Control.
Post colonial Literature:
Is
a study on the effect of colonialism on cultures and societies.
Concerned with both how European nations conquered and
controlled.
“Third
Word” Culture and how these Europeans have since
responded to
resisted those encroachments.
A
Tempest is a post colonial revision of Shakespeare's The Tempest
and
it draws heavily on original play:The cost of character is for the
most part, the same , and the foundation of the plot follows the
same basic premise.
Prospero
has been exiled and lives on a secluded island, and he
drum supa
violent storm to drive his daughter's ship
ashore.The island,however
is some where in the Caribbean ,
Ariel is Mulatto slave and Caliban
is a black slave.
A
Tempest focuses on the plight of Ariel and Caliban-the never
ending
quest to gain freedom from prospero and his rule over
the island.
Ariel,
dutiful to prospero, follows all orders given to him and
sincerelybelieves emancipation. Caliban, on the other hand,
slights
prospero at every opportunity.
In
the first act:
“ Caliban
greets prospero by saying “Uhuru!”, the Swahili word for
“Freedom”. Prospero complains that Caliban often speaks in his
native language which prospero has forbidden.
- Caliban, generally viewed as an almost archetypalrepresentationof the third world colonized subject originated inShakespeare's The Tempest.Conversely, in third world countries, this character has developedinto a positive symbol of the Third World a view that high lights theimplacable spirit of Caliban against Prospero's subjugation.The reiterations of Caliban as a symbol of the Third World can befound not only in a dramatic work, such as in Aime Cesare's ATempest but also in psychological and political treatises, such asthose written by Octavio Mannoni and Fernando Retamar. It isinteresting to situate the process of Caliban's surrogation within therealm of post colonial theory.
We would
critically analyze Caliban as a character not as a class of
slaves,
we therefore argue that who feel marginalized the play from
Feminist
critics the character of Miranda and from the perspective
of
postcolonial critics the character of Caliban. But the loophole is
that just to quote Miranda and her speeches or a faulty perception
of
Caliban’s character in order to acclimatize with the feminist or
post-colonial theory kills the beauty of totality of the play.
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