After reading the novella “Benito Cereno” by the author Herman Melville, I grasped the idea that the novella is written from the perspective of Captain Delano and another unknown narrator. The use of two different points of view in the story has set up a mysterious and suspensible plot which kind of foreshadows what might happen in the future of the story. In the story, Don Benito was trying to save his slaves from any harm, but Captain Delano thought that Benito could be a potential threat to the slaves. While Don Benito was trying his best to save the slaves, he was being threatened by a servant named Babo, who was pushing other black slaves to start a revolution. In order to stop this chaos from happening, Don Benito decided to ally with Babo. In general, enslavement is portrayed as the worst thing in the nation’s history. However, this story has portrayed both the perspective of a person who is not a slave but is struggling for the slaves and the slaves who are trying to start a revolution to fight for their freedom. Even being a captivator of the slaves, Don Benito was looking after his slaves and he was making sure that nothing could cause a war to happen among the black slaves, despite his physical criticalities.

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