Premium Content The Barber's Mastery in Melville's Benito Cereno
By Frances G. Tilney - October 09, 2001
Before the truth surrounding the strange fate of Benito Cereno becomes apparent, Herman Melville effects an intriguing juxtaposition between Don Benito and Babo while the latter adheres to the toilette of his "master." Captain Delano, while watching this masquerade of owner and slave, congratulates the slave on his mastery of the razor, brush and…
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