In 1969 Aimé Césaire published his spinoff William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Césaire’s version, The Tempest, expands and changes the characters to highlight some of their characters and directly deal with the colonial issues raised by Shakespeare’s original work. In particular, Césaire points out the various aspects of colonial minds that are common, and provides insight […]
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Gender issues are present in many of Shakespeare’s plays. Racial difference is a “central” issue in several of his works, most notably Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest. (Bennett 209). Some modern critics see him as representative of the larger concerns British Colonialism present in the nascent British Empire connecting it to the […]
“The Masque of the Red Death”, a fictional story by Edgar Allen Poe tells the story of an epidemic, the Red Death, which plagues an entire country. Throughout this unnamed land, the Red Death inflicts citizens left and right. The ruler of thus stated land, Prince Prospero, possesses no sympathy for his people, yet wishes […]
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Last April, while I was in France, Martinique-born French poet/politician Aimé Césaire died and had a public funeral. I was a bit surprised at the state funeral by President Nicolas Sarkozy, whom Césaire had refused to meet when he was alive. I was more surprised that Césaire was not already dead, as the other founder […]
The Red Death was a devastating disease which overpowered its victims within thirty minutes. The disease caused bleeding from ones pores, dizziness, sharp pains, and red patches upon the body. After approximately half of Prince Prospero’s court had been diminished by the Red Death, Prince Prospero sought seclusion with 1,000 of his friends, in hopes […]
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William Shakespeare’s The Tempest incorporates an array of different characters, conflicts, themes, and other literary tools in its development as a play. The play’s island setting, however, is vital to the framework of the play as a whole, creating the foundation for these literary elements. The island, with its many features, can be viewed as […]