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A 3 page analysis of three stories from Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales. The stories examined are The Piazza, The Bell Tower, and Benito Cereno. No additional sources cited.
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can be argued as possessing similar elements. While they are clearly very different stories, being that they were written by the almost somber Melville gives them elements that are very
similar. The following paper examines the elements of the stories concerning what makes a person valuable and how different societies see the value in an individual differently. Herman
Melvilles Piazza Tales As mentioned, each of these stories is very different and as such present the reader with a different perspective, or a different foundation, concerning human value. For
example, in The Piazza the narrator is one who seemingly presents himself as one that is not necessarily of value. He is hopeful, but depressed it would seem and this
suggests that he does not consider his own life to be of much value. This is evident when he is in conversation with Marianna and she claims that she would
love to visit "the happy being is that lives" in a house she sees (Melville The Piazza). Although it is the narrators house he tells her, "Marianna, well could wish
that I were that happy one of the happy house you dream you see; for then you would behold him now, and, as you say, this weariness might leave you"
(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This narrator seems similar, in that way, to
the man Benito, in Benito Cereno, for he too seems depressed although the reader does not know the reason for this depression till near the end. Benito is a
man who is depressed and presents himself as one who does not necessarily value life and seems all but hopeless in his enslavement to the slaves themselves. This offers a
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