In the book The Empire of Necessity, solipsism was one of the most prevailing motifs, which was presented by Greg Grandin through out the book. Solipsism is the incapacity of seeing and thinking of the world or anything around from another’s point of view and that the self is the only existent thing. Grandin utilized this motif to describe Captain Amasa Delano’s tunnel vision. Captain Amasa Delano emerges in the book The Empire of Necessity, relating to his execution with the slave kid, for occurrence, as a man who does not see his general surroundings but rather with his own particular eyes and his perspective. Delano as an individual likewise indicated solipsism in the novella Benito Cereno when he see the look of the board of San Dominick
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He was a man who's pleased with his own particular considerations and his perspective, such as when he said, “ the servant for a moment surveyed his master, as in a toilette at least, the creature of his own tasteful hands” (Melville. Benito Cereno) . He assumes white might be masters and blacks should be their servants, yet actually he doesn't see anything out of himself for what it is. The appearance of the board of San Dominick was mistrustful and suspicious, and Delano is not suspicious by nature and does not like to trouble himself with things underneath the surface, however when he doubt something was going on the board, his incredulous was from the white master Benito. He did not have any suspicious from the black slaves because of his contempt of black slaves, which considers them to be straightforward animals not more than creatures that can not do anything or move without their masters. His pejorative of slaves initiates when he, while he was walking around on the board ship, sees an African slave mother nursing her “fawn” with a complete obliviousness to the surrounding conditions. Delano’s use of “fawn” to describe the infant slave emphasizes his contempt of slaves More over, “ The Negro Babo, performing the office of an officious servant with all the appearance of submission of the humble slave, did not leave the deponent one moment” (Melville. Benito Cereno); Babo
He was a man who's pleased with his own particular considerations and his perspective, such as when he said, “ the servant for a moment surveyed his master, as in a toilette at least, the creature of his own tasteful hands” (Melville. Benito Cereno) . He assumes white might be masters and blacks should be their servants, yet actually he doesn't see anything out of himself for what it is. The appearance of the board of San Dominick was mistrustful and suspicious, and Delano is not suspicious by nature and does not like to trouble himself with things underneath the surface, however when he doubt something was going on the board, his incredulous was from the white master Benito. He did not have any suspicious from the black slaves because of his contempt of black slaves, which considers them to be straightforward animals not more than creatures that can not do anything or move without their masters. His pejorative of slaves initiates when he, while he was walking around on the board ship, sees an African slave mother nursing her “fawn” with a complete obliviousness to the surrounding conditions. Delano’s use of “fawn” to describe the infant slave emphasizes his contempt of slaves More over, “ The Negro Babo, performing the office of an officious servant with all the appearance of submission of the humble slave, did not leave the deponent one moment” (Melville. Benito Cereno); Babo