Name :- Pritiba B. Gohil 

Roll No. :- 21 

Course No. 11:- The Postcolonial Literature

Presentation Topic :- A Tempest with Fanon’s Psychology

Enrolment No :- PG 14101016  

M.A. English Semester - 3Batch Year :- 2014 - 2016

 Submitted to :-

Department of EnglishMaharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

University

A Tempest with Fanon’s Psychology

What is Psychology ? :- Psychology is the study

of mind and behavior. It is an academic discipline and an applied science which seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

Psychology given by Frantz Fanon The Negro and Language 

The Man of Color and The White Woman

The So-called Dependency Complex of the colonized peoples

The Fact of Blackness (Fanon: The Lived Experience of the Black Man)

The Negro (The Black Man) and Psychopathology

A Tempest with Fanon’s Psychology

 Language as Power in The Tempest Prospero speaks almost a third of the

lines in The Tempest, and controls the amount of speech every other character on the island has through manipulation and magic.

Caliban - speaking his language “To speak a language is to appropriate

it’s world and culture” Frantz Fanon (chap.1)

This speech, delivered by Caliban to Prospero and Miranda.

You taught me language, and my profit on’t

Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you

For learning me your language! (I.ii.366–368)

The Man of Color and The White Woman

Caliban is a Black slave of Prospero and he has Desire for Prospero’s Daughter Miranda.

Black Man Desires for WHITE Woman.

Desire for white love Caliban’s dreaming of Miranda Black man’s love for white woman/love

“Unless it was that awful Caliban who keeps pursuing me and calling out my name in his stupid dreams ..!” – Miranda.

Projected Identity of Black given by White Projected identity Immoral Sexually passionate White man’s fear “something to be saved from, to escape” (chap. 6)

PROSPERO :-You liar, you respond better to the whip than to kindness! I took good

care of you—piece of filth that you are—and let you stay in my own hut until

you tried to rape my daughter.

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) CALIBAN: It's the name given me by your hatred' and

every time it's spoken it's an insult‘. CALIBAN

Call me X. That would be best. Like a man without a name, or to be more precise, a man whose name has

been stolen. You talk about history well, that's history, and everyone knows it! Every time you call

me it reminds me of a basic fact, the fact that you've stolen everything from me, even my identity! Uhuru!

(He exits.)

Struggle of Black Man for Human Existence

Caliban 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) PROSPERO

Gracious as always, you ugly ape! How can anyone be so ugly?

CALIBANCaliban the animal, Caliban the slave!