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Allusions in "Benito Cereno"

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Melville employs a number of historical, religious, and literary allusions in his stories and poems. Choose one to give a close reading. You will need to be able to identify the allusion, its source, and its meaning; for that you need to draw on research in sources outside the text. You will also have to look at its context in the narrative, speculating on how Melville uses the allusion and to what effect, as shown in a close reading of the passage. And finally, you will make a point about how this particular allusion connects with other similar ones in the text, and with Melville's larger themes.

 

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Billy said

at 10:04 pm on Apr 2, 2009

For anyone without ideas (well even though the books full of them) last years class has a huge list of them on moodle. Just ideas to get your brain turning.

http://moodle.tenafly.k12.nj.us/mod/forum/search.php?search=benito+cereno&id=97&perpage=10&page=1

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