Caliban

control everything within the island. By creating an absolute control character of Prospero and an absolute obedience character of Ariel, Caliban and Ferdinand, Shakespeare’s the tempest proves a successful European imperial project within the island. In opposite, Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest did not support but critiques the colonial theory through the depiction of Caliban, Ariel, and Eshu’s freedom of speech. The post-colonial theory is associated with a dominant nation who took control over a…

At some point Prospero claims that he enlightened Caliban from his primitivism and illiteracy to the modern lifestyle. However, Caliban immediately respond that “[Prospero] didn’t teach [Caliban] a thing! Except to jabber in your own language so that [Caliban] could understand your orders…All your science [Prospero] keep for yourself alone, shut up in those big books” (Cesaire 17). Cesaire also states that between the colonizer and colonized there is room only forced labor, intimidation,…

treat Ariel in a better way than he treats Caliban. Ariel is a lot more submissive. Prospero manipulates Ariel he calls him “my brave spirit” so that he will perform Prospero’s deeds (1.2.206). In A Tempest, by contrast, the character Ariel shows explicit signs of dissatisfaction and disgust at what Prospero has made him do “I did so most unwillingly”(9). There is a different dynamic to the master- slave relationship of Ariel and Prospero to that of Caliban and Prospero. This is because Prospero…

Evidently, no other literary work has been revised and deconstructed as The Tempest. Shakespeare’s Caliban represents the most identifiable example of Western colonialism. From the beginning, it is evident that the events are happening at some place in the Mediterranean, which tends to be the most popular body of water in Europe. Moreover, the Mediterranean served as the boundary that defines Western culture many years before even The Tempest was written. Although actions take place mainly on…

were singular literary devices used to create a discrepancy between Caliban…

comments, “as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases” . Indeed, although Caliban and Ariel do not receive monetary payment for their labour, Ariel is given the incentive of freedom as Prospero promises Ariel “I will discharge thee.” Once again Shakespeare employs the use of personal pronouns in Prospero’s speech in order to emphasise his position of power on the island. It is not Ariel and Caliban who decide their own actions but Prospero. Ariel’s freedom relies entirely on…

manipulate other characters, Miranda by using his magic on her to make her fall in love with the King of Naples’s son, Caliban by treating him as animal, and Ariel by enslaving him and refusing to give him his freedom, to show he has power despite losing his throne and crown in his own kingdom. Prospero is a greedy protagonist. Prospero should treat…

tempest with its thunder and shouting; and this scene with the voices and music of Ariel are both great examples of this. If you think about it, the island would be completely ordinary and likely very boring without the magical sounds and “voices” that Caliban describes; just as theater would be less exciting to the audience without the artifice of music to bring energy, suspense, and emotion to the story. Is it possible that shakespeare is making a point about the nature of reality and…

removal of him as immoral, he still enslaves Caliban and Ariel to accomplish his tasks he has given them. In my opinion, Prospero wants justice from what is brother did do him, but the methods he uses to achieve this justice are morally wrong, such as enslaving and using them to benefit only him. Another theme that is used is the distinction between “Men” and Monsters. When seeing Ferdinand for the first time Prospero considers him as a human, but with Caliban he considers to be a monster…

dynamic of power relationships we see throughout the play; Prospero and Miranda, Prospero and Caliban, Prospero and Ferinand, Prospero and Ariel, and…