Thinking Activity: A Tempest: Aime Cesaire

 

A Tempest by Aime Cesaire which was the retailing of Shakespearean The tempest is very much significant in postcolonial literarure. He changed the story and gives it postcolonial look. There are so many major differences. The one is Ariel, the slave of Prospero is mulatto. Shakespearean Tempest fails in many terms like, resistence by Caliban is failing, Prospero represent colonialism at its worst, there are limitations to Caliban. But Cesaire changed the whole concept by making Caliban as a strong rebel. The way he is talking with Prospero is not polite. He used very abusive words. He got all the qualities of a good rebel as described by Albert Camus in his book "Rebel". Shakespearean Tempest ended in order but Cesaire not following any order and in end when all gone from island, Prospero and Caliban remains. Caliban is singing the song of freedom and never allowed Prospero to take his land.

The Tempest can be defined by Shakespeare as a postcolonial play because,

 “Colonized is presented in relation to a cultural hybrid in which the self and others apply the colonial experience” primarily being a post-colonial play it often has issues that arose with its contemporaries, such as depiction issues. Darkness whose idea or connection to the issue of Polish deportation experiences of colonization is also connected, for example, Joseph Conard, and he wrote on his experience of being a colonist: the heart of darkness. He said black identities are largely part of whites that control immigrants. Another example is Robinson Cruz by Daniel Defoe, the Black Man (slave) whose name was Friday. Shakespeare's plays and works are often read as examples of high humanistic morality, which are decisive representations of the morality of divinity. Such as moments of forgiveness, practices of brotherhood, etc. But part of that counter on the other side of it is that those works can be seen very nicely. Which Shakespeare does not have. His plays are very problematic, confusing and even anti-traditional.

 

The Tempest is read as a play of regeneration. It’s a very traditional way of reading a hurricane. Therefore, the question should be raised, does forgiveness mean reconciliation?

People often confuse forgiveness with compromise, as if it were the same thing. They are not. Compromise is the final step in the forgiveness process, but it’s the “cherry on top” - and an added bonus when it happens. ... It takes two people to compromise, but only one to forgive.