...Retributivist Justice in Benito Cereno Stephen Harris LIT 326-05 Journal #1 In the book, Benito Cereno by Herman Melville was justice served satisfactorily to Babo according to the ideals of retributivist punishment by author Thom Brooks as defined in his book Punishment. Benito Cereno is a story about Captain Amasa Delano and his encounter with the ship San Dominick, a delipidated slave ship that has anchored near Delano’s ship The Bachelor’s Delight. When Delano boards the San Dominick he meets Don Benito Cereno the captain of the San Dominick as well as Babo Don Cereno’s slave. To the trusting eye of Capt. Delano things seem oddly out of sort but come to full revelation as Delano attempts to leave the San Dominick. At an investigation after...
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...NORTH AMERICAN FICTION BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Before starting our study of American Fiction we must understand what American Literature is in itself and which pieces of writing we can include within this label. It is believed that when a piece is written in North America, more precisely in the USA, it would automatically be given this epithet. But it should be taken into account that this idea is quite broad and doesn’t reflect the real essence of the term. However, there is also another definition that gathers this essence: American Literature is the one that represents the Americanism, the singularity of the USA philosophy and culture. This way, instead of focusing on who the author is, it is focused on the content of the writing. In that which concerns Fiction, the following documents are the ones considered as narrative: Speeches Letters Short Stories Essays Political Documents Sermons Novels Diaries 1 FIRST LITERARY EXPRESSIONS The first documents in which the idea of Americanism is very present are the Sermons. They respond to the strict Protestantism settled in the New Continent after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers and Puritans in the Mayflower (1620) and the Arabella (1630). They established a theocratic community whose main and only point of reference was the Bible. That is why the idea of the ‘city upon a hill’ is still very present in American mentality. As we all know...
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