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◇ Introduction about " A Tempest":
Miranda and Ferdinand's relationship in The Tempest is important to the story because it represents innocent love at first sight. Despite Prosporo wishing to control their relationship, and the havoc that takes place throughout the story, Miranda and Ferdinand remain pure and unaffected, unlike the other characters.
Une Tempête (English:"A tempest") is 1969 play by Aimé Césaire. It is an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest from a postcolonial perspective. The play was first performed at the Festival d'Hammamet in Tunisia under the direction of Jean-Marie Serreau. It later played in Avignon and Paris. Césaire uses all of the characters from Shakespeare's version, but he specifies that Prospero is a white master, while Ariel is a mulatto and Caliban is a black slave. These characters are the focus of the play as Césaire foregrounds issues of race, power, and decolonization.
In this postcolonial re-working of Shakespeare's original play The Tempest, we find Prospero exiled, and living on a secluded island in the Caribbean with his daughter Miranda and his two slaves, Caliban and Ariel. With Ariel's help, he creates an enormous and malevolent storm that wrecks a passing ship that carries Antonio (his brother), Alonso (the King of Milan), Sebastian (Alonso's brother), and Gonzalo (Alonso's counselor). These royals once betrayed Prospero and exiled him to the island long ago, and Prospero wants his revenge.
understanding of this play. Now that the period of colonialism is over--we are "after" or "post" that era--we have been reevaluating its impact, especially by incorporating the voices and perspectives of formerly colonized peoples. Today, we can see that Shakespeare presented colonialism in a nutshell in the relationship between Prospero the colonizer and Caliban the colonized figure. Prospero came, depended on a native (Caliban) to teach him how to survive then enslaved that native, called the island his own, and deemed Caliban a monster. To many, this conveys how colonialism occurred in real life. We, in modern times, feel some sympathy with Caliban's anger and desire for revenge.
◇ Idea on " A Tempest":
The role of the supernatural in William Shakespeare's The Tempest is to allow Prospero to enjoy the kind of power that was so suddenly taken away from him when he was usurped as Duke of Milan. With his magic powers, Prospero can exercise control over others, just as if he were back in Italy. Even more than that, he can control the very elements.
Prospero's supernatural powers allow him to carve out his own little kingdom on a remote desert island. Undoubtedly traumatized by the experience of being usurped as the rightful Duke of Milan by his treacherous brother Antonio, he feels keenly the loss of power and yearns to exercise it once again. Unable, of course, to do this back in Italy, he settles for the island which is now his own private kingdom. Here, with his large books of magic and free from the machinations of ambitious courtiers and family members, he can enjoy a greater degree of power than he could ever have enjoyed in the Duchy of Milan.
In William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel states, "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
Ariel, in Shakespeare's The Tempest , is a magical spirit who, having been freed from the imprisonment imposed upon him by his earlier master, Sycorax, a mean-spirited witch, by Prospero is now condemned to find himself compelled to serve this new, albeit largely more benign, master. While Prospero has promised Ariel his freedom should the latter serve obediently and without complaint, the continued requirement to serve a master continues to bother the always helpful spirit. In Act I, Scene I, the ship transporting the former's nemeses, including Ferdinand, the reigning king's son, is caught in an enormous storm, or tempest, and the passengers are forced to abandon the vessel.
Tempest are mercy and forgiveness. In his earlier plays, Shakespeare has dealt with the sound and fury of revenge, his hatred, and evil. In Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear he had shown a bloody universe where there are cruelty, murder, hypocrisy, and ingratitude. But in this last phase of life, Shakespeare’s vision of life is mellowed into a sober one. After the din and bustle of his revenge play, Shakespeare in the last days of his career started writing tragic-comedies and romances. In The Tempest Shakespeare shows that it is love and forgiveness that can bring final peace in the world. The theme of reconciliation is the main theme in The Tempest. Prospero was wronged by his brother but he does not take revenge when he gets his enemy in his power. He rather forgives him and embraces him. This view of life is a maturing one and definitely, it is a final message to the world. Shakespeare is saying farewell to the stage by asking us to follow the path of forgiveness and reconciliation.
The 20th-century critics have identified the theme of colonization in ‘The Tempest’. In one sense, Prospero is a colonizer; he colonizes the remote island by snatching it away from its rightful owner Sycorax, the mother of Caliban. Prospero’s dukedom was usurped by Antonio, his brother. On the island, Prospero has himself become another usurper.
One subsidiary theme of The Tempest is the theme of education. Prospero educates Miranda; he also tries to educate Caliban in a civilized way but in a sense, Prospero also undergoes a process of education. There is an inner development in Prospero which turns him into an intensely human being. It is often said that in portraying Prospero’s character, Shakespeare has a large extent revealed himself. The progress in wisdom made by Prospero gives us some idea of the path which Shakespeare has himself followed in life. As the Duke of Milan, Prospero was essentially a scholar with no practical wisdom. Thus he neglected his government of the state which was his first duty and gave an opportunity to his wicked brother to undermine the throne. But in the course of the play, he has become as watchful as providence; he has known human nature in the worst form Prospero becomes mature and worldly wise through experience.
The young lovers in Shakespeare's The Tempest fall in love instantly as if by magic. Ferdinand and Miranda's love in The Tempest would seem to be the Shakespearean equivalent of those advertisements for a beach holiday: pure magic, love and joy in a beautiful island setting.
Miranda and Ferdinand's relationship in The Tempest is important to the story because it represents innocent love at first sight. Despite Prosporo wishing to control their relationship, and the havoc that takes place throughout the story, Miranda and Ferdinand remain pure and unaffected, unlike the other characters
The tempest that begins the play, and which puts all of Prospero's enemies at his disposal, symbolizes the suffering Prospero endured, and which he wants to inflict on others. ... The tempest is also a symbol of Prospero's magic, and of the frightening, potentially malevolent side of his power.
●The Game of Chess:
The object of chess is to capture the king. That, at the simplest level, is the symbolic significance of Prospero revealing Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess in the final scene. Prospero has caught the king—Alonso—and reprimanded him for his treachery. In doing so, Prospero has married Alonso’s son to his own daughter without the king’s knowledge, a deft political maneuver that assures Alonso’s support because Alonso will have no interest in upsetting a dukedom to which his own son is heir. This is the final move in Prospero’s plot, which began with the tempest. He has maneuvered the different passengers of Alonso’s ship around the island with the skill of a great chess player.
Caught up in their game, Miranda and Ferdinand also symbolize something ominous about Prospero’s power. They do not even notice the others staring at them for a few lines. “Sweet lord, you play me false,” Miranda says, and Ferdinand assures her that he “would not for the world” do so. The theatrical tableau is almost too perfect: Ferdinand and Miranda, suddenly and unexpectedly revealed behind a curtain, playing chess and talking gently of love and faith, seem entirely removed from the world around them. Though he has promised to relinquish his magic, Prospero still seems to see his daughter as a mere pawn in his game.
●Prospero’s Books:
Like the tempest, Prospero’s books are a symbol of his power. “Remember , First to possess his books,” Caliban says to Stephano and Trinculo, “for without them He’s but a sot”. The books are also, however, a symbol of Prospero’s dangerous desire to withdraw entirely from the world. It was his devotion to study that put him at the mercy of his ambitious brother, and it is this same devotion to study that has made him content to raise Miranda in isolation. Yet, Miranda’s isolation has made her ignorant of where she came from , and Prospero’s own isolation provides him with little company. In order to return to the world where his knowledge means something more than power, Prospero must let go of his magic.
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