ENG250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Key 2
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Subtle combination of quiet eerie scene, the way the readers move into the scene. Different between the surface and some type of reality. Sort of told that this is a tableau, costumes involved. Gothic ship of death imagery reinforces the comfort of what is hidden and what is or not revealed. Delano comments on ratio of slaves to sailors. When slave hits white person and delano asks about it, cereno goes around it. Don"t know what you"re detecting, not sure what you"re looking for. Clues are there, text doesn"t tell us exclusively. Headlessness is all about power, associated with revolution. Tense violence, but also violence that is about insurection, kings in revolutions become beheaded. Further complicated by the kind of expected comfortable nature of this scene o. Delano"s experience of it: third person limited. Almost as if we"re looking over his shoulder. Like we"re in his head, going back and forth. Legal deposition in the conclusion, not limited more general.
