Revisiting William J. Shakespeare’s The Tempest From a Colonial and Postcolonial Lens

The current paper shows colonialism as a concept and how European countries have created colonies in Australia, Asia, Africa, America, capturing overexploiting the colonies’ natural resources dominating natives. new nation discoveries accomplished by Europeans stuck Shakespeare’s mind, naming these “New World”. Tempest approaches Prospero’s colonial attitude Caliban’s postcolonial standpoint. With that being said, this aims to demonstrate Shakespeare stands middle making no approval or disapproval of colonization. can be reviewed from lens. Fanon (1991) establishes violence-based struggle is component decolonization process represented Caliban. Towards end paper, key related interpretations India’s overexploitation Great Britain are adopted make piece evidence one deadly sins history rests colonialism.