In Herman Melville's novella, "Benito Cereno," an American ship captain has a surprising encounter with slavery when he boards a vessel largely occupied by blacks. ... "Benito Cereno" can be compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" because the main character from both stories struggles to decipher the realities of good and evil. ... The authors' perspectives on evil are reflected through the main characters of their stories. It appears that both authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, believe that evil is disguised; as in &q...

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