Abstract

Colonialism is the single most powerful force shaping the world we dwell in. It is a policy of supremacy, which involves the subjugation of a superior country to another inferior country. Colonizing nations by and large are primary concerned with usurping the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may, in the long run, impose socio-cultural, religious and linguistic structures on the indigenous population.. Shakespeare’s The Tempest is one the most prevailing plays in literature that reveals the elements of the colonial life, mainly through the relationship between the colonist Prospero and the native Caliban. This paper aimed to investigate the colonist’s attitude and the way he contemptuously looks at the native and the native’s rebellion and revolution against such maltreatment resulting in hatred, scorn, loath, cunning and enmity due to the feeling of settler’s superiority over aborigine’s inferiority. The study also investigated the dimensional aspects of such phenomenon that surprisingly became much more significant in the contemporary analysis.

Key words: Colonialism, Prospero, Caliban, aboriginal, colonialist, settler.