In this novella, there are three main characters Babo, the leader of the slave revolt, Benito Cereno, the controlled Spanish captain, and Amasa Delano, the white captain who stopped this slave revolt. On the San Dominick abroad Melville drew the failed slave revolt. In my opinion in the end this devastating story indicates how ridiculous the social ideology was. Benito Cereno was the spark for the slave revolt on the board and he wanted to stop this chaos with his team. I feel really sorry for the trauma he had to face emotionally and physically and on top of that, he has been killed for no reason. Also, unfortunately, Captain Delano and Babo lost their life in an unreasonable harmful fight. It is depressing what happened for all of these characters but I understand the circumstances they’ve been through at this time. The society’s “values” put a pressure where they had no better decision to be made in this situation. I blame society’s ideology more than I blame the characters in this story in this situation. Benito Cereno with his team fought for his own freedom and this very understandable. All he wants is to be treated like anybody else. On the other side Amasa Delno the white captain stopped this revolt for the values he had been raised on, where the advantages and privileges he has as a white person.

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