Question

Which character relationship best shows how colonizers took advantage of differences between native populations?

a) caliban and trinculo, because trinculo accuses caliban of lying
b) ferdinand and prospero, because prospero uses ferdinand for slave labor
c) ariel and stephano, because ariel tricks stephano with elegant clothing
d) caliban and ariel, because they hate each other even though they are both slaves

Answer 1

Answer: Caliban and Ariel, because they hate each other even though they are both slaves

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Answer 2

Many postcolonial scholars (e.g., Octave Mannoni) view characters Ariel and Caliban from William Shakespeare's The Tempest as representations of slavery. In that sense, Ariel is considered to be the good slave, who believes in negotiation and loyal servitude, whereas Caliban is thought to represent a cunning slave with a resentment against his master, namely Prospero. In fact, there have been subsequent plays based on The Tempest which took place in slavery-linked locations such as Haiti and Cuba.