Comparision between 'A Tempest' and 'The Tempest'
- 1. Topic : Comparison between 'A Tempest' and 'The Tempest' ● Name : Pandya Dharmishtha D. ● Paper No. : 11 (The Post-Colonial Literature) ● Class : M.A Sem- 3 ● Banch : 2015-17 ● Roll No.: 22 ● Email Id: pandyadharmishtha510@gmail.com ● Submitted by : Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English M.K. Bhavnagar University
- 2. The A William Shakespear 5 acts Aime Cesaire 3 acts French proseBlank Verse and prose Tempest Native knowledge system Colonial modernityV/S The clash of knowledge system
- 3. Aime Cesaire ● “A Tempest” (1969) is a play by Aime Cesaire.
- 4. William Shakespear ● “The Tempest” William Shekspear's play, written around the year 1610.
- 5. A Tempest by Aime Cesaire ➔ Cesaire – a renowned poet, essayist and playwright. ● A Tempest, translated- French to English, stunning masterpiece. ● The author- insightful views on the psychology behind Prospero and Caliban's action. ● Cesaire's version: the themes of colonialism and Negritude
- 6. A Tempest ● It is really a “post colonial response to The Tempest” ● As such deal with the story from the point of view of Caliban and Ariel ● This adaptation for a black theatre follows the main lines of Shakespear's plot ● But there are significant changes ● The translation simplifies and shortens the original ● Ariel and Caliban argue about modes of resistance: ● Ariel pleads for non-violence ● Where Ariel, a mulatto, slave, attempts to win over his master and Caliban speaks outright and demands.
- 7. Conti.... ● In the Masque, the figure of Eshu, appears 'a god to his friends, a devil to his enemies' and sings obscene song ● Despite Ariel's waening, prospero orders the arrest of Calian and his fellow conspirators. ● Gonzalo attempts to convert Caliban to Christianity but fails ● Introducing the figure of Eshu and making Prospero's oppression more obviosly racial
- 8. The Tempest ● He is the protagonist and central character ● Prospero is the Duke of Milan ● Father of Miranda, Master of Ariel and Caliban ● Mediterranean island ● Twelve years ago Prospero lost the dukedom of Milan to his scheming brother Antonio. ● Was put out to sea with his 3 years daughter ● They live on an isolated island ● Two slaves, the spirit Ariel and the Caliban ● Using his magic power ● Prospero causes the ship in which Antonio is travelling with the king of Naples and his son to be wretched on the island.
- 9. Conti...... ● The kings son Ferdinand encounters Prospero and falls in love with Miranda. ● The king himself is about to be murdered by the treacherous Antonio ● Caliban meets with two sailors and together they plot the downfall of Prospero ● At last, Prospero takes his leave of his magic powers ● Gives blessing to the marriage of Miranda and Ferdinand ● He then prepares to return in the magically restored ship to resume his rule in Milan.
- 10. Treatment - Natives ● He is polite in The Tempest and Rude in A Tempest. ● He occupies the land in both ● Shekspeare's The Tempest in order to debate colonial politics. ● The major change in the plot, that Prospero regards it as his duty to remain behind on the island. ● Suggest that however futile his gesture, whites and blacks will have to develop some form of mutually supportive relationship rather than remain antagonists.
- 11. ● In Shakespear's 'The Tempest', Prospero leaves at the end, but in Cesaire's 'A Tempest', Caliban and Prospero lives there, at the end Prospero grants Ariel his freedom, but retains control of that island and of Caliban
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