This is my presentation on Characterization of Caliban in 'The Tempest' and 'A Tempest'..

1. Hiteshbhai C. Parmar
• Topic :- Characterization of Caliban in
'The Tempest’ and ‘A Tempest’
• Paper Name :- The Post-colonial Literature
• Paper No. :- 11
• P.G. Enrollment No. :- PG13101024
• Roll No. :- 09
• Semester :- 03
• Year :- 2014 – 2015
• Date :- 03/10/2014
Submitted to
Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.

2. Post-Colonial Literature
• Colonialism – The control and governing influence of a nation
over a dependent country , territory or people.
• Post-Colonialism – Means after colonialism. Post-colonialism is
the study of a culture after a physical and political withdrawal
of an oppressive power.

3. Colonizer People
Colonized People

4. Character of Caliban
A Tempest
The Tempest

5. Character of Caliban
A Tempest
The Tempest by William
Shakespeare’s
Written between 1610 and 1611
In English Language
A Tempest by Aime Cesaire
Published in 1969
In French Language
A Tempest is a postcolonial
revision of William
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
The Tempest

6. Character of Caliban
• Caliban, a villainous island native, the deformed son of a witch
named Sycorax, who ruled the island before Prospero arrived.
He now works as Prospero's slave but despises him. In the play,
he is known to have said many colorful curses.

7. Character of Caliban
A Tempest
Caliban having no Power.
Having no language.
Presented as Colonial
Caliban.
Caliban having Power.
Having language.
Shifts perspective from
colonial to post colonial.
The Tempest

8. Character of Caliban
A Tempest
Presented as more brutal
and as monster.
Symbolized as primitive
humanity.
His enslavement is because
of his own character.
Presented as colonized
with more aggression.
Symbolized as third world
country.
Enslavement caused by
their race.
The Tempest

9. Character of Caliban
A Tempest
The Tempest

10. Character of Caliban
A Tempest
Caliban tacitly admits his
attempt to rape Miranda.
Accepts his dominated
subjectivity.
Do not seek for freedom, not
aware about the role of
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.
The Tempest

11. Character of Caliban
A Tempest
Have no Language, Wanted
to be slave.
Have no ability to speak.
No Objection with his slavery.
Caliban greets Prospero by saying
“Uhuru!”, the Swahili word for
“freedom.” Caliban favors revolution
Caliban often speaks in his
native language.
Caliban tells Prospero that
he no longer wants to be
called Caliban.
The Tempest

12. Conclusion
A Tempest" by Aime Cesaire is a play based largely on Shakespeare's "The
Tempest" with only a few changes. Cesaire's version of this play explores the
original concepts in further depth by incorporating the themes of colonialism
and Negritude which Cesaire studied extensively. "A Tempest" addresses
modernist issues and theories through the utilization of a classic play that most
modern readers are familiar with.