Invisible Meaning in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno

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The present research has analyzed invisible meaning in Herman Melville's (1819-1891) Benito Cereno (1856) as an adventure romance novella the time of which is 1799. Its locale is the he harbor of St. Maria, off the coast of Chile, and Lima, Peru. Superficially, this is a story of slavery and mutiny on the high seas, but beneath the adventure-charged plot lies Melville’s examination of that subject which so fascinated him: the confrontation of extreme forces of good and evil in the universe. The irony of the tale is that good-hearted, naïve Delano is only victorious in rescuing the victimized Benito because he is too innocent to comprehend the horror and depravity into which he wanders. Implied intended meaning is communicating an idea or feeling without saying it directly. This is known as the invisible meaning for which the readers must search between the lines of an utterance. It is what the author or addresser seeks to put across for the readers or addressees to decode and comprehend. In other words, implied meaning is what the writer/speaker decodes to the reader/listener and how they interpret it based on several factors such as knowledge, linguistic knowledge, culture, contextual clues and its relevance to the readers. It has thus focused upon the impact of an utterance on the addressee when figuring out the intended meaning via the trichotomy of locution, illocution and perlocution.

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