ENG 250W Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Scurvy
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Wednesday, nov. 15: herman melville, benito cereno (norton b, Fictionalized account about a revolt on a spanish slave ship. Massachusetts ship sees the spanish ship in distress. A bunch of people, both sailors and african slaves, basically waylay him to tell him their tale of suffering: scurvy, fever, storm and shipwreck. Since everyone was miserable anyway, benito let the slaves loose from their chains and everyone pitched in to get them home. Some slaves try and break out and kill them. Whether, in view of what humanity is capable, such a trait implies, along with a benevolent heart, more than ordinary quickness and accuracy of intellectual perception, may be left to the wise to determine. " Describes the narrator as too trusting, and foreshadows the fact that he will regret it.
