The Tempest: A Postmodern Reading

The works of William Shakespeare have a universal influence and are considered representatives all times ages. Critics, scholars, academics, students been rereading, reexamining, retelling, restaging his plays century after century. This dissertation proposes to examine Tempest as postmodern text. elements: ant-formality, pastiche, intertextuality, paranoia, irony, playfulness, puns, wordplays, conspiracy theories, temporal distortion, supernatural elements, create an atmosphere in Tempest, which can be described postmodern. Focusing on Ihab Hassan Brian McHale's definition characterization postmodernism created opportunity approach this paper illustrates how deconstructs the formal properties text uses pastiche that projects connotation play. also explores religious, mythological, geographical, historical references characters their names, events, incidents, locations, places construct intertextuality insert paranoia into In identifying postmodernist elements— particularly presence dreamy world—this examines binaries: natural vs. reality dream, pivotal concepts. Based Foucault's Eye Power, study discovers Panoptical Gaze Prospero, who has assigned Ariel—as surveillance keep eye everybody everything island. Finally, aims reread Tempest—as