Benito Cereno

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…for the ignorance with which he lives his life, and the racist bubble that he floats around in. Melville could not have created a more appropriate character for the time period, a northern Yankee who thinks that he is always doing the best yet manages to cement much of what is wrong with society. In forming Delano, he forces all readers to question their own beliefs, and the prejudices systems they fashion because of them.