In William Shakespeare 's play The Tempest, he demonstrates examples of Post-Colonial Criticism among several scenes. I will continue to demonstrate why it is the best school of criticism for analyzing the play using examples from the play as well as two critical essays, Alexander Fights Monsters in India, by Stephen T. Asma and The "Tempest" in the Wilderness by Ronald Takiki. Post-colonial criticism, discusses power, culture, economics, and politics. Post-Colonial criticism also converses with the history and stories of the people that were colonized. An example of colonization would be the history between the natives and Europeans, which I will discuss later on. Colonization happens in different situations such as among people, places,
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New Historicism is also a school of criticism, it dealt with history, basically covers the history that led to that event. Some of the issues that are dealt with back then are what we still have to endure to this day in society. Some things just never change, in other words history has a way of repeating itself. Regardless, of the rest of the schools of criticism, I will continue to argue that the best school of criticism for this play The Tempest by Shakespeare is Post-Colonial Criticism.
Throughout Shakespeare’s play, Post-Colonial Criticism was evidently being shown in numeral parts of the play. Characters such as Prospero, Sebastian, and Antonio had scenes that showed a few examples. For instance, in Act 2, Scene 1 Antonio, the usurping Duke of Milan and the brother of Prospero was persuading the king’s brother, Sebastian to kill King Alonso in order to take over. Sebastian, who of course was against such an atrocity, was not up for it. While Alonso and the other men that he was accompanied with were put to sleep, Sebastian was slowly persuaded to kill him, this would be an example of the power that the …show more content…
Asma he tells a story about a man named Alexander, who had an army following him as he marched into India. Alexander and his army were both struggling, they were all traveling on low energy they were exhausted and had no food and had a very difficult time finding water. When a solider finally found water, he remained loyal and took it to Alexander. Alexander saw himself as a leader who was no greater than his army and with the water that he was given he spilled it because he was not going to give himself better treatment than the rest of his men. They eventually found food and water after several stops. Some of his men died because of weakness. Alexander and his army all later faced great fears as they went deep into India. Insects and animals began to get extremely humongous. Alexander, and the soldiers all fought the animals and insects that they encountered and later Alexander realized that the “guides” who told him where to go specifically sent him somewhere else. They had lied to him and made more of his many soldiers die trying to fight the huge insects and animals. Comparing the critical essay to the play by Shakespeare, In The Tempest, Caliban was the monster. He was a representation of the Indian people and they made him be seen as a “savage” creature that was not considered human to the Europeans. Stephen explains, “The creatures described in Alexander’s letter may have been real exotic
New Historicism is also a school of criticism, it dealt with history, basically covers the history that led to that event. Some of the issues that are dealt with back then are what we still have to endure to this day in society. Some things just never change, in other words history has a way of repeating itself. Regardless, of the rest of the schools of criticism, I will continue to argue that the best school of criticism for this play The Tempest by Shakespeare is Post-Colonial Criticism.
Throughout Shakespeare’s play, Post-Colonial Criticism was evidently being shown in numeral parts of the play. Characters such as Prospero, Sebastian, and Antonio had scenes that showed a few examples. For instance, in Act 2, Scene 1 Antonio, the usurping Duke of Milan and the brother of Prospero was persuading the king’s brother, Sebastian to kill King Alonso in order to take over. Sebastian, who of course was against such an atrocity, was not up for it. While Alonso and the other men that he was accompanied with were put to sleep, Sebastian was slowly persuaded to kill him, this would be an example of the power that the …show more content…
Asma he tells a story about a man named Alexander, who had an army following him as he marched into India. Alexander and his army were both struggling, they were all traveling on low energy they were exhausted and had no food and had a very difficult time finding water. When a solider finally found water, he remained loyal and took it to Alexander. Alexander saw himself as a leader who was no greater than his army and with the water that he was given he spilled it because he was not going to give himself better treatment than the rest of his men. They eventually found food and water after several stops. Some of his men died because of weakness. Alexander and his army all later faced great fears as they went deep into India. Insects and animals began to get extremely humongous. Alexander, and the soldiers all fought the animals and insects that they encountered and later Alexander realized that the “guides” who told him where to go specifically sent him somewhere else. They had lied to him and made more of his many soldiers die trying to fight the huge insects and animals. Comparing the critical essay to the play by Shakespeare, In The Tempest, Caliban was the monster. He was a representation of the Indian people and they made him be seen as a “savage” creature that was not considered human to the Europeans. Stephen explains, “The creatures described in Alexander’s letter may have been real exotic