POST-COLONIAL DISCOURSE IN SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY

India, together with the present and colonial past of postcolonial culture, is seen as a rich subject with meanings and influence for the study. However, as compared to other colonial powers, British imperialism is much more functional. The western effect of India changed the Indian society. The literary movement has been influenced by the ideals and basic values of local people's traditional attitude, culture, and social life. The authority of the British, was stopped for more than two hundred years. Also, it becomes direct when we need to learn the history of English literature as it relates to the lives of the English people. This mindset affects the educational, social, and cultural areas. The movement of the British colony in the given subcontinent shows the importance of literature on people's social live

At the first time, British people came India for trading. There are two types of British colonizer came to India. One came for trading purpose and another one for religious. But the westerner refuses to became Indian, they only wanted to trade us, which is very clear that Indian event to makes open colony. In 1800s, they didn’t allow Christian missionary, because this people understood, religion is a different opposition and interferer in the religion in the religion affairs in local people especially the Indians. In 1800s onwards they capture it. 1830s they established the Christian missionary and that period of time they started readings novel. The East India Company speeded lots of money for the India and the British govt. wanted to have a policy for the Indian. But, at tat time India have 2 different kinds of languages, one is Sanskrit and another one is English.

The postcolonial use of William Shakespeare's plays, "The Tempest" appeals us with its images of race, gender, and culture that are at times with our modern ideas. "The Tempest," William Shakespeare's last play, may be seen through a post-colonial view. The story is set on an island, and the portrayal of it looks to be more important since it refers to colonies that had been colonized at the time the play was written. The story is with how the colonizers took over the locals' country and how they dominated the native people (particularly Caliban), their traditions, and culture.

This play shows how colonization took native area and how they dominated native people, rituals, and culture. The Duke of Milan is the protagonist in the play Prospero. He and his daughter Miranda were banished to an unknown island. Isolated in the middle of the sea, he got at an unknown island that came to be the land of a local named Caliban. When Prospero comes on the island, he makes friends with Caliban. Prospero uses a range of clever methods to learn about the island's details. After learning all about the island, Prospero used his knowledge and power to take it and slave Caliban. Just like British are do with Indians.

On the other hand, by being linked racism in (Shylock and Othello), as well as imperialism in (Julius Caesar). In the play of Merchant of Venice and Othello we can find the racist attitude of Shakespeare. When he describes about Shylock and Othello (as a black ram, a black moor).

Adhya's dramatic connection with Shakespeare's Othello clearly confused and relocated the clear "Manichean" concept of "black and white" that, according to Franz Fanon, ruled relations between European rulers and their non-European people. Shakespeare's works (along with those of other canonical writers) were produced as part of a nineteenth-century aim of promoting English culture.

The Calcutta theatres strongly relates to the official colonial objective of promoting English language and literature in India. As the English built their influence in India. After 1913, the popularity of the English plays declined as Bombay theatre were transformed into silent film cinemas.

Shakespeare's works are well famous in Indian literary criticism. Shakespeare's "universal" position is further confirmed by a more contemporary critical collection, Shakespeare in India (1987). The Shakespearean text is changed into an acceptable ideal, removed from the postcolonial world's social and political changes. 

 

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