'Caliban' in "The Tempest" & "A Tempest"
- 1. Name : Rasila Jambucha Roll no: 22 Paper: The Postcolonial literature Topic: Caliban (character) in The Tempest and A Tempest Submitted to: Smt.s.b.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University
- 3. Etymology the name is an anagram of the Spanish word canibal ( carib people) character may be inspired by kaliban or cauliban in the Romani language- means black or with blackness
- 4. Caliban in The Tempest antagonist half human and half animal weak obedient doesn’t challenge Prospero pathetic, crass and vulgar Caliban in A Tempest protagonist black slave more powerful in his struggle against Prospero disobedient refuse to follow orders
- 5. The Tempest son of Sycrox by a devil real native of the island “savage and deformed slave” less resistance and uses prospero’s language plays a role of dicourse of colonialisms
- 6. A Tempest raised voice against his white master Prospero resistance against Prospero his journey to gain freedom under Prospero ‘s rule expressed his thought more emotionally and descriptive represent the colonized by the colonized reveals deeper freedom and a greater awareness of role of language in the process of alienation and oppression alienation from his own identity
- 7. Shakespeare’s caliban Does not preserve his fierce and implacable spirit Depicted as half animal, served to represent the other in an emerging colonial discourse
- 8. Cesaire’s caliban elaborate apology contains two critical attack on the politics of assimilation and justification of colonialism Represent an opposite to colonialism and the struggle to find a postcolonial identity
- 12. The Tempest caliban’s plans with Stephano and Trinculo (take over the island) “ I’ll show the every fertile inch o’th’ island And I will kiss thy foot : I prithee, be my god.” still willing to be their slave shows Shakespeare himself believed in eurocentrism
- 13. A Tempest he feels “insulted” when Prospero utters his name he tells Prospero that , he no longer wants to go by “caliban“, but rather “X”
- 14. The Tempest A Tempest