Comparison between A Tempest and The TempestWilliam Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, probably his best work, on the eve of European colonization of the New World in 1611 (Hollander and Kermode 445 -46 ). As a result, common European ideas about the New World in the early 1600s are alluded to throughout the work (446). Through the propagandistic writings of explorers such as Captain John Smith, who wrote a sensational and unsubstantiated account of his dramatic rescue from death at the hands of the Indians by the Indian chief's beautiful daughter, Pocahontas, many Europeans developed an interest in the inhabitants of the New World. (Smith 24-25). In fact, from the stories of the various explorers who came to Europe, two different points of view emerged regarding the natives of America (Hollander and Kermode 446). These two different points of view in Shakespeare's work are represented by the characters Ariel, who represents the compliant and friendly native, and Caliban, who represents the native as a savage savage. In 1969, Aime Cesaire published A Tempest, a play that uses Shakespeare's work as a model. While Shakespeare writes from a European point of view about the New World on the eve of colonization, Cesaire, born on the Caribbean island of Martinique in 1913 and, therefore, originally from the "New World", has been writing for over 300 years. years of retrospect on the effects of European colonization. While one aspect of Shakespeare's genius in The Tempest is his reticence (Hollander and Kermode 444), part of Cesaire's genius in A Tempest is his overt accentuation of certain nuances found in Shakespeare's work. Thus, Césaire uses Shakespeare's work as a paradigm. accentuates the ugly consequences of European colonization of the New World....... middle of the paper....... Boston: Houghton, 1985. Hollander, John and Frank Kermode. The literature of Renaissance England. New York: Oxford UP, 1973. Keen, Benjamin. A History of Latin America, 4th ed. Boston: Houghton, 1992. Kozol, Jonathan. Wild inequalities; Children in American schools. New York. Harper, 1991. Proffitt, Edward. Read and write about literary fiction. Poetry. Drama and essay. New York: Harcourt, 1990. Smith, John. "The general history of Virginia." Anthology of American literature; Colonial through romantic. 5th ed. Ed. George McMichael. New York: Macmillam, 1993. 15-25. Washington, James M., ed. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King. New York: Harper, 1986.West, Cornel. Race issues. New York: Vintage, 1992.Wood, Joe, ed. Malcolm X: In our image. New York: St. Martins, 1992.