In the final pages of this story, the title character is asked "what has cast such a shadow over you," and replies "the negro."
A play based on this story ends with one character being told "this is your future" before being shot six times. The protagonist encounters an old man tying an enormous knot, and his incredulity about the amount of time required to sail from Cape Horn to St. Maria prompts another character to cut his master while shaving him. In the final pages of this story, the title character is asked "what has cast such a shadow over you," and replies "the negro." The ominous sound of the hatchet-cleaners foreshadows the unveiling of a figurehead featuring the words "Follow your leader" and the skeleton of Don Aranda, the former captain of the San Dominick, which Amasa Delano realizes is run by the slave Babo. FTP, name this short story about a slave rebellion on the ship of the title Spanish captain, by Herman Melville.
A play based on this story ends with one character being told "this is your future" before being shot six times.
“{Benito Cereno}”