Premise of Human Inequality

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In this article the writer shows that the themes of injustice and inequality in American life form a common bond that both Hawthorne and Melville would have agreed upon. By analyzing two short tales by these authors, one can find the problems of racism and social injustice that arise in their philosophies on the real America, not the popular nationalism espoused in the Bill of Rights.

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"In this literary study, the friendship of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville was based upon the premise of human equality and minutiae of human existence within the world's great expanse. Through Hawthorne's "A Minister's Black Veil" and Melville's "Benito Cereno", a comparison between the two stories and their philosophies on human inequality and injustice will be evaluated. In essence, both Melville and Hawthorne sought to use human equality and legal justice as literary devices for dissolving inequalities and injustice within the American society. In Melville's tale "Benito Cereno" two captains must vie for justice regarding a slave ship that has been found off the coast of Chile."

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