Herman Melville emits extensive and painful droning in the story, ‘Benito Cereno', that often leaves his readers bored and frustrated. Captain Delano, one of the main characters, is a passive man who at times, frustrates his readers with his naive, passive, disregard. Delano often "looked" at potentially problematic situations but, never "saw" what was transpiring. Ironically, Delano's passiveness results in the saving of his life. As Delano boarded the San Dominick, a spanish slave ship, he witnessed peculiar act's that contradicted the traditional customs of a slave ship. Delano was particularly struck by the acts of the pleasant black slave, Babu, who maintained the weak, sickly, white captain, Benito Cereno and remained by his side continuously. The following passage is an example of Babu's attentiveness to Cereno: “Sometimes the negro gave his master his arm, or took his handkerchief out of his pocket for him; performing these and similar o...
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