Character of Caliban and subaltern

Name: Maru Janak J.Roll No:20Paper Name: The Postcolonial LiteratureEmail ID: marujanak17@gmail.comSubmitted to :Department Of English

Character Of Caliban in The Tempest

• Caliban is silent; He can’t speak against anybody.• Caliban is son of witch

hug and the only real native of the island to appear in the play.• He is an extremely

complex figure, and he mirrors or parodies several other characters in the play.

Character Of Caliban in A Tempest

• Caliban having power.• Having language• He attributes his alleged

attempted rape of Miranda to in Prospero's language.

• His intense feeling of isolation for his dominated subjectivity.

• Seeking more for his freedom, knows how to use language.

• Shifts perspective from colonial to post-colonial.

Meaning Of Subaltern• It refers to the populations that are

socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.

• As intellectual discourse, the concept of the subaltern is problematic because it originated as a Eurocentric method of historical enquiry for Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

• The term “subaltern” is used in the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, human geography and literary criticism. 

Eklavya as Subalterns•  If we think about these two

characters, so these are subalterns.

• Ekalavya is from lower caste and because of his low caste he can’t get education.

• They have no right to learn. He is smart than Arjuna and yet he can’t be great archer because of his caste.

Gaytri Chakravorty spivak:

• In "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Speak discusses the lack of an account of the Sati practice, leading her to reflect on whether the subaltern can even speak.

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• Even he learnt archery by his self, without any Guru and yet powerful people not give him right to be an archer.

• So we can say that Eklavya as subaltern character. His intention to be archer is good and yet he can’t to do.

Caliban as a subltern•  As same the character of Caliban is

also represent this kind of identity. • He has no power because he is black

man but he raises his voice against his master because he has language.

• Without language he can’t do it. So if we want to be rebellious when we have language.

• And behind these all things power played a vital role in our society. On most of the position we can see high caste’s people. 

Conclusion

Thus, we can say that the characters like Eklavya and Caliban are in history and present. And these types of characters are there because there are some characters who are ruling over them. In these types of situations we can see that the power played a vital role behind these all things.