The Enemy Other: Discourse of Evil in William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest"

Caliban, the ‘enemy Other’ of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is a character that allows further investigations colonial ideology in its earliest forms; locating ‘evil’ forces outside continent Europe and White race. only non-European character, typified as autocratic antagonist play whose evil intentions actions cannot be redeemed. Against such representation, essay argues villainous discourse attributed to Caliban informed by Renaissance theological doctrines escorted an emergent ideology. It that, at semantic level, employment concept often serves intensifier denounce wrongful actions. At moral however term contested on basis it involves unwarranted metaphysical commitments dark spirits necessitating presence harmful supernatural creatures. To attribute human beings therefore essentially problematic dismissive since lacks explanatory power why certain people commit rather than others. Hence, epistemological aporia Caliban’s myth reveals inevitable paradox, which concurrently requires both unhuman figure. Drawing deconstructionist approach, puts under erasure, hence, evilness mere production rhetoric reality itself. This review contributes intersecting areas discourse, representations, within spectrum postcolonial studies.