1. Name: Vora Hirva
Topic: Comparison of Shakespeare’s
“The Tempest”
and Aime Cesaire’s “A tempest”
2. 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.
3. Tribals
• No tradition or class!
Mulato
• Half black half white
Caliban
• Slave who wants to establish superiority on authoruty !
5. Comparison and contrast
• The process of colonialism into postcolonialism and rewriting !
• Slave-master relationship, colonized
colonizer.
• Magic and witchcraft – one of the major
characteristics of both the writers
Shakespeare and Aime Cesaire.
6. • 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.
7. 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’.
8. • 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’!
