The Confidence-Man His Masquerade by Herman Melville
Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade action takes place on April Fool's Day aboard the Fidèle, a steamer that heads down the Mississippi River. The novel introduces readers to the bewildering characters, one of them. It is a skilled confident man who appears throughout the book with various disguises.
A staple of The Confidence-Man. Is trust - the limit of belief in society Melville examines humanity's heart and finds it damaged, just as Mark Twain did in his later work. On Fidèle, which is presented as a microcosm of human society with an incredible diversity of human types, selfishness is the only human motive. Perhaps even more boisterous is the near impossible to detect anyone's true character on board. Protien is just a prime example of The Confidence-Man's law of hypocrisy. It's a world of deception and deception. Each impostor's conviction calls on the deceit to show confidence, and each is similar to the collapse of mankind. A confident man plays with his victim until he discovers a weakness he can use against them.
A confident man appears in a bewildering outfit: a cream-colored mute, a crippled African-American beggar named Black Guinea, a weed man, a representative from Seminole Widow, and Orphan Asylum, president of Black Rapids. Coal Company, Herbs Doctor for Sale Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator and Samaritan Pain Dissuader, Happy Bone Setter, representative of the Philosophical Intelligence Agency, Cosmopolitan (who wears strange garb from many national costumes), and Frank Goodman.
The novel also features a number of recognizable regional genres, especially the rough and ready westerns, and the crafty Yankees hawks, and often sets up representatives of one region relative to another. Melville provided not enough clues for readers to identify these characters, thus putting the reader in a close position to the victim of a convinced man who was sometimes greeted by the expression. More than one of his
There is very little action in the novel, consisting almost entirely of confident people talking to their victims. Therefore, the lecture consists of the work of dialectical thinking. The passengers he interacted with showed themselves engaged in a variety of confidence games. At least they are often portrayed as self-interested people and rarely reveal their true thoughts or intentions. Like any game of confidence, the protagonist of the novel can be played with the selfish motives or the inflated ego of his victim.
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