Well okay, this my view of what the blog promp is asking of me. There are too many controversial and varying interpretations of "The Tempest" to compare; however, I will compare a few of them.
In discussions of "The Tempest", one controversial issue has been that Shakepeare leaned more towards imperialism when writing this play. Aime Cesaire, supports this idea through her verion of the play called "A Tempest,"
which shows Caliban and Ariel as being enslaved against their will. This is one way of looking at it, however it may not have been what Shakespeare intended.
On the other hand, others such as Meredith Skura, view that those critics viewing "The Tempest" as a postcolonialist piece "flattens the text into the postcolonialist discourse and eliminates what is characteristically 'Shakesparean'." Shakespeare often wrote according to his time period so who is to say which he meant since both were occuring at the point in time.
How I read it I mostly believe it to be more imperialism. caliban and Ariel, like Cesaire had stated are indeed held against their will and forced to learn Prospero's ways, as is Ferdinand; therefore the views of this paly to me are very imperialistic.
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