 Some months after, dragged to the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed on a pole in the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites; and...  The Piazza Tales - Seite 270von Herman Melville - 1856 - 431 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Herman Melville - 2006 - 322 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed on a pole in the plaza, met, unabashed, the gazes of the whites, and across the Plaza looked towards St. Bartholomew's church, in whose vaults... | |
 | Larry D. Bouchard - 1989 - 300 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites." The narrator's voice grants Babo a kind of immortality that condemns the whites whose gaze he meets... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1986 - 420 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...Rimac bridge looked towards the monastery, on Mount Agonia without; where, three months after being dismissed by the court, Benito Cereno, borne on the... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 472 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...Rimac bridge looked towards the monastery, on Mount Agonia without; where, three months after being dismissed by the court, Benito Cereno, borne on the... | |
 | Robert S. Levine, Robert Steven Levine - 1989 - 328 Seiten
...fury than does Delano's happier "innocence." Nevertheless, the stark description of Babo's severed head, "that hive of subtlety, fixed on a pole in the Plaza" (755), suggests why Delano would adopt his blindness: It allows him to turn from "shadows present,... | |
 | George Dekker - 1990 - 392 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...Rimac bridge looked towards the monastery, on Mount Agonia without; where, three months after being dismissed by the court, Benito Cereno, borne on the... | |
 | Sterling Stuckey - 1994 - 314 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites. 37 33 Ibid., p. 6. "Ibid., pp. 67-68. 35 Ibid.,p. 68. 36 Marvin Harris, The Rise of Anthropological... | |
 | Adam Zachary Newton - 1995 - 366 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...on a pole in the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of whites" (307). Significantly, the incident of the exhibited head does not appear in the historical... | |
 | Lothar Bredella, Werner Delanoy - 1996 - 290 Seiten
...the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites . . . (353) author and protagonist Matthiessen missed the very point of the story: Melville's ironic... | |
 | William G. Rowland - 1996 - 254 Seiten
...In "Benito Cereno," Melville used Babo as an image that horrifies but cannot enlighten the reader: "for many days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed...the Plaza, met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites" (755). At the end of "Benito Cereno" the reader is left, like Delano, unable to moralize on this image,... | |
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