Post Colonial Theory

Post Colonialism Theory To understand the nominate colonialism theory, I believe that we must early take a brief style at how we got present. In order to accomplish the post era, we first must notch th near the ch exclusivelyenges and lessons of those before us. How else would the history that we work to teach us to daylight be there, how else would we eng extirpateer the literature to educate us? Colonialism was all much than or less the newer, bigger, better lands and though these lands had natives al exacty, they were only an early(a) obstacle. They would be fellow the natives and pee them to teach them the authoritys of the land in order to belong and survive comp permite the land.Once they were self-sufficient, they would begin to rise to adjust the natives to their appearance of life as the proper itinerary of life. They would teach them that they were life wrong and diabolical lives and would stock-stilltually turn against the natives when they did not co nform to their way of life. Therefore switching designs from the colonise to the colonizers. In switching the roles of magnate and masking their true colors and purpose for world there, they showed their true nature for possession and government agency, for apprehension and abhor.Throughout the school applys that we have been studying, we ascertain this all over ND over again in the way that these characters move in and take over. As we look at the way Galoshes was genitive of his people and his land, we ascertain the way he did as he pleased. He was cognise to be two thirds god and a tyrant. (Manson 15) As in those who be the colonizers, he was feared and not necessarily respected. He impose his wishes and commands on his people and rather than living for them he forced them into submission, such as claiming his birthright, the privilege of sleeping with their brides before the husbands were permitted. (Manson 15) as you see tear down straight off end-to-end th e history books. It is a constant hurt for the power and longing of what is not ours that drives some. He lived this way for some time mentation that he is content until the farmers son brings him news program of merciless who is living in the afforest with the animate beings as angiotensin converting enzyme. This is something new and undiscovered to him, besides still not enough to modernize him totally worked up. Something untouched, something that he does not proceed in or possess, so he sends the prostitute to see if he can break off it.It is in the continued thirst for power and possession that drives him to colonize in a way even Enkindles life in the ores. Galoshes is so bored, cold or resistive to what he is doing that he forgot (Mason 17) that he has even make this and continues on with his life as he has d wizard every day before that with no regard as to what impact he may have had on this mans life or history. The tempest we see Prospers exiled on an islan d and living as the kingpin so to talk, provided as we read on, it was not eternally that way.He was nonetheless another example of the colonized seemly the colonizer. He came to the island as a abase exile, fleeing with his girl Miranda after his brother Antonio had crush him and moved his titles, lands and wealth to teach him a lesson. He be relay linked an island imp identifyd Clinical who teaches them how to live on the island and in turn Miranda teaches him to speak. Prospers as if by magic binds Clinical as a striver after he turns on him and holds his let out over his head as a continual show of power.Where once he was resemblingd well enough, he is now referred to as a villain by Miranda (Shakespeare act 1, scene 2), it is funny how the role are reversed when your drillfulness has ill-defined off and you no long hold the upper hand. The same ways Prospers holds Ariel, but he does not mind since he freed him from a much more than wretched master. Colonized and colonizers are switching roles and taking on roles of the others in this story. Everyone wants the power, yet no one knows how to share it because each feels that the other is less superior.As we look at the mentation that both of these men Just treasured the possession of what they were after in the story, was that rightfully what they were after? Are we sure they were not after something else? An author by the name of Edward Said argued that a literary text seldom conveys only one content (Baldwin/Quinn 10). Could it be that they were after friendship, after dearest, after visit, after hatred, after immortality (whether it was to be remembered in name or to live on as a god), or was it Just to die where they came from?So lets look these options a little bit more. If we look to Galoshes, in changing the steps of Enkindles life with the prostitute, unsympathetic comes into his own and discovers who he is as a man and not Just animal by opening his eyes to his intimate natur e and not Just his annalistic primal nature. Unkind comes to the city and challenges Galoshes to a man to man battle, which shows the release of vexation and hate within them. The anger and hate was battled out for so long that upon the end of the battle it says they were exhausted.It states that when they s in additiond, He turned to Unkind who leaned against his shoulder and looked into his eyes and precept himself in the other, Just as Unkind saw himself in Galoshes (Manson 24). If we look deeper into this quote from the book we see several things, we see love, we see friendship, and we could even see immortality of an without end soul mate. We see this love and friendship let throughout the remainder of the story and approximately would say this is the main theme.They learn together, fence together, they even defy the gods together and consequently Galoshes is forced to pay the ultimate scathe for his set forth in that with the life of his friend and soul mate. Galoshe s refuses to let go of his friend and the love the shared by bringing him back and puts himself through untold cark and toil to try to find a way to do so. He says, l have been through grief , however if there will be more of pain, and heat and cold, I will go on (Mason 57, 58). It is only when the serpent steals the pose and slithers away that he realizes he too must go back to thence he came.His search for immortality is lost. But is it? Is immortality everlasting life? Is it being known by name and story and being told over and over? Was his immortality the city that he had construct and remaining behind as a legacy as we see him looking at over in the beginning and the death of his tale? I think that is up to our interpretation. If we take the same look at the Tempest as we did with the story of Galoshes, what would we see? We would see the love that Prospers had for his daughter Miranda and his desire to protect her from harm as he did on the island every day in is te aching and daily lessons.We see the love that he shows to Ariel although he is under his power he is gentle toward him, where with Clinical, he is rough and hateful. Prospers is very smart and calculated about how he gets his revenge. He does well not to kill or harm anyone to carry through it and wants to have those who have wronged him apologize. He even ensures the plan by involving his naive daughter and the love that she accommodates or will bear for Prince Ferdinand by having them married by the pious beings. Once Prospers proved the treachery of Alonso, Antonio andSebastian that had been done to him those 12 years ago and the revenge had been played out, love won over. exclusively he wanted was to have them to try out them apologize and to be restored. This was not a tale of immortality, but again, not of one singular theme either. I hypothecate the argument that I could make here is that no matter how you look at these two amazing pieces of literature, there are so many different stories all wrapped up into one. It is much like our history, not matter what burthen you are looking at it from, there is always someone that has another view on it or how it really appended, or something missed.I think, like postcolonial literature, there is much to be left to the imagination in how we interpret it. I believe that what the authors had in mind when they wrote these stories was to let the stories wander and to evolve to fit what would speak to the reader and not to be one track minded. The point of having an imagination is to use it and set it free, to be able to read these stories and to re-read them and find a different angle every time is the best part about it. I dont believe that we were meant to tie to one specific theme, but to look for them all.Maybe you are not the type to explore them all at once, but undermentioned time you are thumbing through the pages, try looking at these stories from the prospective of more than one. It broadens the s tory and opens the plot to even more beauty and wonder of possibilities.