‘A Tempest’ with Fanon’s Psychology

Paper: Post-colonial literaturePresented By: Poojaba JadejaRoll No.: 20Year: 2014, semester 3rd

Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Guardy Department of English, Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

‘A Tempest’ with Frantz Fanon’s psychology

Limitations• Psychology of Black people of France

after colonization• Mentality of Blacks as accepting

colonized culture• A Tempest as rebel against colonizer• Limited characters, place and setting

Language• Caliban - speaking his language

• Ariel’s acceptance

“To speak a language is to appropriate it’s world and culture”

Frantz Fanon (chap.1)

Desire for white love

• Caliban’s dreaming of Miranda

• Black man’s love for white woman/love

• Revenge and arrogance (Chap. 3)

Projected identity

• Immoral• Sexually passionate• White man’s fear• “something to be saved

from, to escape” (chap. 6)

Search for identity

• Doesn’t have separate identity

• “Instead of being a person, a man, an individual, he is black man, an object”

(Chap. 5)

Inferiority/ superiority complexes

•Prospero’s superiority complex

•Ariel’s inferiority complex

-(Chap. 4)

Struggle for human existence• Calian is considered as an

animal• “Black men are seen little

better than animals.” (chap. 6)• “The Negro is an animal,

the Negro is ugly, Always a negro never a man”

(chap. 5)

Thank You