Analysis 'Benito Cereno' - Mellville

Black and the temple church

Black, and he notes that, opposite of the tower, was the Temple Church, surrounded by offices and dormitories. He returns to the Blood River, but this area is completely deserted. He met a woman, and with her went into a room in the factory, where a pause machine is imprinting a rose emblem on the paper. He begins to put the purple of his tap into the paper mill. The boy on tricycle-power machine with Cupid, the tour guides the boss of the mill. Old Bach is also a bachelor, and the woman shows compassion towards the blank lives of the girls who work in the mill. Cupid tells to the narrator that the girls work 12 hours a day except Sundays, and they call themselves 'girls' and not women, because they are generally unmarried. There is underlying their condition of women's slavery and or exploitation! The word 'Tartarus' too were used in Greek mythology to represent an underworld, where suffering exist. The factory embodies this connotation of torture. The context indeed is the known (night seeking open class) and hard bust (parties and hard work) found in any industrialized factories in the late 18th century.

Benito Cereno

Testo - "Benito Cereno" (pg. 2405) Amos Delano, New England's captain and his crew on the Bachelor's Delight is approached by another ship 'San Dominic'. Upon boarding it, Delano is greeted by white sailors and black slaves. The 'San Don' ship 'Don Benito Cereno', is constantly attended to by his personal slave, Babo; he's a strange man, very confused. He tells his tribulation of including hundreds of patients and the part of the slave’s master, Alejandro Aranda, who died. Gradually, Delano's suspicions increase, based on Cereno’s anxiety, the crew's movements and whispering, and the unusual interaction of the whites and blacks onboard the canvas with the skeletal of Aranda, and Delano's men stop Babo from killing Cereno.

Delano then understands what happened aboard the 'San Dominic'; the black slaves killed Aranda, keeping some sailors, including its captain, Cereno, alive. The slave's wanted Cereno to sail them to Africa. Cereno was presented as the captain in control, when Babo secretly manipulated the situation. Delano concludes his story with the execution of Babo; he notes that Cereno seems devastated by Babo's death, falls into depression and dies himself a few months later. Benito Cereno centers on a slave rebellion on board a Spanish ship in 1799 and, because of its ambiguity, has been read by some as racist and pro-slavery, and by others as the antiwest text (Newman).