Comparing The Tempest And The Outer World

As pointed out by Merrell Knighten in his essay called The Triple Paternity of Forbidden Planet, the main difference between Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the 1956 science fiction adaptation Forbidden Planet (referred to as FP) is the use and control of power. In The Tempest, Prospero knows what power he holds through the use of his books and spells, and ultimately uses these powers to restore order to the island. However, in forbidden Planet, Morbius’ powers are unknown to him and ultimately lead to his demise. This essay will show how Morbius may be considered a more disastrous character than Prospero due to his lack of realization of the power which

Columbus desired to travel to China, India, and the rumored East Islands. He was one of the few people in his time who believed the Earth was round, not flat like scientists had claimed before. He also believed the distance between Europe and Asia through the Atlantic was 2,300 miles, a rather small number. Believing the open ocean would lead to Asia, he sailed in that direction. Little did he know; two continents would block his

Many different explorers wanted to capture and take control of the land they didn’t own. They knew that the task was not one that would be easy. Lots of different explorers faced the task of removing the Natives as well as the other Countries fighting for the land. The settlers soon began to realize the opportunities they had in front of them. Explorers from Spain, England, Russia, and the new United States, looked with interest toward the Northwest. A major goal of the explorers was to discover the so-called "Northwest Passage" to the Pacific Ocean.

It is the cliché story of the rightful ruler who is overthrown by his enemies, but manages to restore his status and live happily ever after. However, the play fails to question Caliban's position and view as a savage and slave, by only acting out the treatment of natives people by Europeans. Prospero is a bigot who validates and legitimise his treatment, intolerance and prejudice of Caliban due to his supposedly savage behaviour of resisting submission and his attempted rape of Miranda. He is seen as the 'Other', different from Europeans and therefore naturally inferior, 'But thy vile/race/Though thou didst learn - had that in't which good/natures/Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou/Deservedly confined into this rock'[1.2.430-435] ). Caliban is a representative of the indigenous people exploited by European colonizer, Prospero, and the previous quotation show how it is his 'race' and 'nature' that make him inferior, even though the supposedly benevolent Europeans tried so to make him human as Prospero says (‘A devil, a born devil, on whose nature/Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,/Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;’)[4.1.212-214].

The Tempest and Brave New World both well known books from well known author have many attributes allowing them to be compared and finding what’s different between them. Their diction, whom their audiences were , and the differences between the themes of magic in The Tempest and technology in Brave New World. Shakespeare and Huxley wrote them for their audiences to enjoy and later on analyze. The language that William Shakespeare uses and Aldous Huxley uses differentiates because of the three hundred year hiatus between the language usage. The language in “Brave New World” is more understandable than the language in The Tempest, for example, “O woe the day.”

Known for producing the world’s most well-known explorer and colonizer, Christopher Columbus, Italy was no stranger to the concept of slavery which was unjustly propagated unto the natives of the island by Prospero in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1603) and Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest (1969). Just as the European culture was forced unto the inhabitants of “discovered” lands, Prospero made it his duty to enforce such a standard unto the island natives. To any European in the 18th century, being black served as a diabolic symbol of a person who could not be refined but only improved by the imposition of European language and culture. With the triangular slave trade already in effect, one must not be surprised at the objective of Prospero as he became blinded by power and authority.

The Europeans wanted to explore for many different reasons. I will be explaining what thesis reasons are and how they helped them. One of the biggest reasons was that they wanted to find a new route to Asia. What happened is that the Turkish cut Europe off by reclaiming Constantinople. The second reason was that they wanted to travel seeking to find gold, silver... Gold and silver were no longer found in European mines. So they had to find a different source and at the end they did. The third reason was to spread their religion. Monarchs who promoted the exploration believed that they had to spread the Christian Religion around the world. Some other reasons where:

These explorers searched for trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. Some of the explorers simply set out to learn more about the world. The notorious voyages of Christopher Columbus began in an attempt to find a trade route to Asia by sailing west. He instead reached America. Columbus did not discover uninhabited land, but he did spark European explorers. He shared this information of the new world with Spain and the rest of Europe. The Age of Exploration allowed explorers to learn more about the Americas and places like Africa. Columbus was able to further define nautical maps. This Age of Discovery increased geographic

Columbus made four different voyages to what the world now knows as America, he wanted to find a water route to China because there were many goods that the Europeans wanted, and Columbus colonized and expanded the territory of Europe.

In this motif tracing, I argue that the epithet “monster” is used as an agent of othering, a way to remove Caliban from the other characters and depict him as something other than human. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Caliban’s name is only said eight times, while he is addressed as “monster” the rest of the 34 times he is spoken to. This motif is used to belittle and dehumanize a unique character that plays an essential role in the plot. Shakespeare’s use of this epithet combined with Caliban’s servile role, restraint of his speech to simple diction, and portrayal as an insurgent, causes the uncultured native to be born. This plays into the 16th century view of the native: one who is there to serve the more sophisticated, knowledgeable masters.

Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest is a ‘new world’ response to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In Cesaire’s adaptation, the characters and plot are generally the same. However, there are a few small deviations from Shakespeare’s The Tempest that make a significant impact on the play as a whole, and lead the play to illustrate important social issues occurring in the time of the adaptation.

Although I believe the theatrical performance of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” held to a higher standard, the cinematic version holds its own unique characteristics. In the movie, they offered contrasting theatrical and artistic concepts through cross-gender casting, acting styles, and special effects.

Why did Columbus travel west? Why did Marco Polo head east? Because it is that pull, that unknown, that prospect of adventure that compels humans to seek new frontiers to explore.

William Shakespeare is perhaps the greatest literary writer of all time. His works are still being studied, read and performed today. Dramatist Ben Johnson was correct in stating that Shakespeare “was not of an age but for all time.” Shakespeare’s The Tempest demonstrates the timelessness of human nature and that the lessons portrayed in his play appeal to the reader, no matter the timeframe. These lessons are revealed through the themes of freedom, forgiveness and power. All individuals desire freedom.

Jason Kelliher in his academic article put forward a comparison between the spirits such as Ariel or Caliban depicted in The Tempest and the technological advances in Brave New World. They both are a “form of technology” and are “the same kind of malicious control […] to fulfill authoritarian goals”. Science, and what is more magic in the Shakespeare's play, is really important to achieve a control on population through for example; with soma tablets in Brave New World and wine in The Tempest or with Hypnopaedia and the siren song that could be considered as a intentional determinism. These uses of technological advances, that are a “requirement for any purportedly society”, show according to Kelliher a “deification [of] industry” and “makes possible to idealize the assembly line and downplay the moral and religious values of a more “primitive” age”. This is ,this time, an intentional destruction of the religious primitivism. The new God of the World state would be Henry Ford as said in the date 642 After Ford which replace a