Name : Rasila JambuchaRoll no: 22Paper: The Postcolonial literatureTopic: Caliban (character) in The Tempest and A Tempest Submitted to: Smt.s.b.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University

Caliban’s character in

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare’s

caliban

Does not preserve his fierce

and implacabl

e spirit

Depicted as half animal,

served to represent the other

in an emerging colonial

discourse

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

The Tempest• Shakespeare

portrays the injustice of Caliban's situation

A Tempest• Cesaire's explore and

sympathizes with caliban, give louder voice to speak

The Tempest

• Shakespeare interested in Prospero’s character, interested in the colonizers

A Tempest

• Cesaire's interested in Caliban’s character, Prospero-symbol of colonized people taking back their island

The Tempest• Caliban never tries

to challenge Prospero, he used his language

A Tempest• Caliban tries to

challenge Prospero by using the native word “Uhuru”

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

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”

The Tempest A Tempest