Using both these plays alongside other scholarly and historical texts, I will bring cultural and historical context to these portrayals in order to explore a deeper understanding of the complicated and nuanced depictions of Jewish people in Shakespeare’s work. I will support the interpretation of Caliban as a Jewish-coded figure through cross-reading The Tempest with The Merchant of Venice, sections of the Geneva Bible, and non-fiction testimonials from English residents during and before the Elizabethan era. In this paper, I propose that Shakespeare has an implicitly Jewish character lurking in The Tempest: Caliban, the play’s main antagonist, a native to the island on which the play is set, and Prospero and Miranda’s slave. Merchant contains Shakespeare’s only explicitly Jewish characters, Shylock and his daughter, Jessica, although she happily converts to Christianity. However, almost all conclusions put forth by scholars about Shakespeare’s ties to Elizabethan Jewish communities and anti-Semitism have been drawn from one work, The Merchant of Venice.

Shakespeare’s relationship to and purported views of Jewish people have been scrutinized for centuries. tions of power set up among the characters of The Tempest: Prospero enslaves the deformed Caliban (Shakespeares anagram for cannibal) while Ariel is the. The paper is not only investigating Caliban’s black African, but also his name has an important reference of an ancient tradition of Arabs who used to name their children after animals’ names for their belief that if their sons are named after animals’ names, they will be protected from evil and bad luck.This paper seeks to introduce new data into the discussion of William Shakespeare’s portrayal of Jewish people through intertextual and close reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice, sections from the Geneva Bible, and primary documents discussing Anglo-Jewish life in the Elizabethan era. Therefore, the name of Caliban seems very popular in Arabic literature, especially in Egypt and South Africa. The main sources of motivation for Calibans villainous actions include both fear and revenge. The Paper gives an Arabic linguistic analysis for Caliban’s name which seems very popular in Arabic literature and some Arabic series. I will give some Arabic interpretations and analysis which may increase our understanding to classify Caliban as a black African, not an American Indian. Interestingly, Shakespeare’s three deformed characters Richard, Thersites, and Caliban all serve a similar dramatic function: each is an irreverent clown and audience favorite who ends up trashed at the end of the play by. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan says about Caliban’s black African race. The dramatis personae of The Tempest casts Caliban as a savage and deformed slave. Ergo, my paper is building on what Alden T. His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own 'outside' Shakespeare's own work: 1 as Russell Hoban put it, 'Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being. Shakespeare uses Caliban as a rugged appearance but is actually poetic, friendly and. Caliban (/ k l b n / KAL-i-ban), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Caliban, the native and Prospero, the settler, both face disagreeable circumstances that lead to the climax of colonization. William Shakespeare uses two individuals whom encounter a problematic condition. So, I disagree with those who say that Caliban is an American Indian because of some specific reasons which is mentioned in the paper. The Tempest is a novel that portrays these occurrences. For example, Caliban is thought to be an American Indian, unlike others who say that he is black African. In his first speech to Prospero, Caliban. He is an extremely complex figure, and he mirrors or parodies several other characters in the play. Though his race is not mentioned by Shakespeare in The Tempest, many writers and critics try to investigate and know what his race is in the play. Prospero’s dark, earthy slave, frequently referred to as a monster by the other characters, Caliban is the son of a witch-hag and the only real native of the island to appear in the play. Inherritance and heirs were very important in Jacobean society. AbstractCaliban’s character in The Tempest is very complex. Prospero claims that Caliban is the child of the devil, presenting him as unambiguously evil.

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