Melville, ''Benito Cereno''

How is Beneito Cereno and the Ideal Reader and Character represented in your criticism of the text?

Please respond. This is a fun one.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/what_would_you_do_if_you_were.html

French, Anyone?
“While Captain Delano was thus made the mark of all eager tongues, his one eager glance took in all faces, with every other object about him” (Melville 491).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/french_anyone.html

"The instant that was done, Don Benito sprang over the blwarks, falling at the feet of Captain Delano; at the same time calling towards his ship, but in tones so frenzied, that none in the boat could understand him" (Melville 518).

Let's play a childhood game! Follow the Leader!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2009/02/were-following-the-leader-lead.html

"White Guilt" and the American Slave trade.

A little fun and a little analysis
“The ship seems unreal; these strange costumes, gestures, and faces, but a shadowy tableau just emerged from the deep, which directly must receive back what it gave.”
-From Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism, page 491
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/02/a_little_fun_and_a_little_anal.html

"As he thus responded, Captain Delano again glanced at Don Benito, but the latter's eyes were averted; while abruptly and awkwardly shifting the subject

It’s Like Conrad’s Book
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/02/its-like-conrads-book.html

"...its hands like two paws, clambering upon her..."