The Tempest 'And Henley's Invictus'

1. What evidence did you find in the film about about the director’s analysis of the script? (Script Analysis)

Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest is a ‘new world’ response to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In Cesaire’s adaptation, the characters and plot are generally the same. However, there are a few small deviations from Shakespeare’s The Tempest that make a significant impact on the play as a whole, and lead the play to illustrate important social issues occurring in the time of the adaptation.

Explore the struggle/desire/theme of power and how it is presented in ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘The Tempest’.

In this motif tracing, I argue that the epithet “monster” is used as an agent of othering, a way to remove Caliban from the other characters and depict him as something other than human. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Caliban’s name is only said eight times, while he is addressed as “monster” the rest of the 34 times he is spoken to. This motif is used to belittle and dehumanize a unique character that plays an essential role in the plot. Shakespeare’s use of this epithet combined with Caliban’s servile role, restraint of his speech to simple diction, and portrayal as an insurgent, causes the uncultured native to be born. This plays into the 16th century view of the native: one who is there to serve the more sophisticated, knowledgeable masters.

In Tempest, Caliban and Prospero are of contradictory natures. Their characteristics are notably different as well as other characters have different opinions and attitudes to them. However, both of them have the same master and savior Prospero.

A utopian society is an ideal community. A society where people don't worry about criminal’s crime. William Shakespeare and Nathaniel Hawthorne both wrote stories about laws and action dealing with the New World. Shakespeare wrote the story, The Tempest, Hawthorne explains that if the people were not a certain way or did things a certain way they did not belong. In Hawthorne's story The Scarlet Letter described that if one committed a crime or didn't follow the laws you had to face the consequences. Even though both stories were written by different authors they both have similarities and differences.

I had waked from a long sleep, / Will make me sleep again." He speaks

Discoveries only change our thinking and values if we approach them with a positive attitude. In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Prospero’s self-discovery is to see that he feels a greater human connection with all beings, including nature, if he seeks collaboration not control. The royal party too are forced to question their exalted place in a rigid Elizabethan hierarchy, as nature wreaks havoc in both the natural and man-made order. Once on the island unconstrained by status and position, free to contemplate new perspectives and cast off old assumptions. Shakespeare's characterization of Prospero's rule and controlling temperament, portrays him as Colonial usurper and slave-master. It is a trenchant criticism of the play’s social and political

Through “Invictus” William Ernest Henley shows that if people did not run into obstacles in their life no one would know who they truly are. The use

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest refines his portrayal of nature from the earlier play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, nature is shown to be mysterious presence that blurs the lines between reality and illusion; it is a magical force that is unreachable and incomprehensible for human beings. A Midsummer Night’s Dream gives nature a mischievous, playful, dreamlike feel because in this play nature interferes for the sake of love. The Tempest breaks down the barrier that divides human society and the natural world, a divide that is present in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, because nature’s presence and effects become more noticeable and it becomes a power that is within the reach of humans. In The Tempest nature isn’t

In the “Tempest” by William Shakespeare there were many intriguing characters. Two notable characters were Ariel and Caliban. Ariel and Caliban were very different in most aspects but shared some similarities and common interest. Each character played avital role in the play independently of one another.

Everyone wants to be successful, but without facing the obstacles you will never achieve. In the play, "The Tempest", by William Shakespeare, it's based on a violent shipwreck causing an internal conflict, giving the theme struggle for power. In the play, each character sets an example for the struggle for power. In act one, when the shipwreck occurs, it becomes chaos. Throughout each act, each character has an urge for power, even the innocent, such as Caliban, giving the play a theme.

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Caliban is the primitive monster who belongs to the bottom of the power hierarchy on the island claimed by Prospero. Caliban, the original inhabitant of the island, unwillingly becomes Prospero’s slave as he uses magic to take control of the island. Prospero sees Caliban as the savage and monster who does not acknowledge the order of civilization despite his efforts to educate him. Caliban appears as an inferior and beast-like figure from nature in the eyes of the civilized people in the play, yet his language and behavior throughout the play suggests that he maintains human emotions and adequate understanding of the civilized world, which challenges the European characters of placing him at the bottom of the island’s social structure.

“They have left me out,” Suniti Namjoshi gives a voice to Caliban in her poem, “Snapshots of Caliban”, that reimagines William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest. She is able to extend Caliban’s perspective through journal entries written in his voice. In the original work, the portrayal of Caliban is based primarily on how he reacts to how Miranda and Prospero treat him. Because The Tempest is written as a play, it has limitations in providing a perspective of Caliban outside of his dialogue with other characters, but in Namjoshi’s “Snapshots of Caliban”, she extends the perspective of Caliban through the medium of poetry to highlight his power struggle, and further extend that he is oppressed not just structurally or materially, but in his interiority. This

Throughout William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Caliban, as the native, is treated as an inferior by Prospero and Stephano, the colonists. However, comparing The Tempest to European colonialist attitudes in the Elizabethan era provokes a 21st century audience to re-examine why Caliban is perceived as a monster. Caliban’s addiction to alcohol, his worship of Stephano, and his plot to kill Prospero are perceived as savage, yet upon further examination, are merely a way of coping with his fate, rather than a display of his intrinsically primitive nature. Parallels between Elizabethan colonialism and Caliban’s relationship with Prospero and Stephano make evident the fact that Caliban is inherently noble and the true victim of The Tempest.