Both Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and Cesaire’s Adaptation “A Tempest”
Words: 1126 Pages: 4 12122Agency Both Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and Cesaire’s adaptation “A Tempest”, determine a character's power by the agency they possess. Shakespeare gives Prospero agency to control everyone around him and get revenge, while Césaire gives Caliban agency to demonstrate the effects of colonialism on the colonized. Césaire portrays Ariel as a musatto slave and Caliban as a black slave, to further emphasize the power differentials between the “white-man” Prospero and the colonized. Although given agency in Césaire’s adaptation, Caliban is still […]