AskEssays.com - Discover essay samples

Bill budd

4.9 of 5.0 (92 reviews)

Contains
239 words
Category
Novels

Bill budd Page 1
The above thumbnails are of reduced quality. To view the work in full quality, click download.

Bill budd


Herman Melville's Billy Budd is a story about true goodness. It entails the conflict of good and evil, but more than that it portrays innocence in its? most purest form.

Innocence is an exploitable commodity. While this is universally recognized, there are many different ways people confront it. Some people choose to embrace and protect it. While others choose to abuse it and corrupt it. Those who choose the latter are evil_plain and simple. By making this choice they are reflecting not upon the innocent, but upon themselves. This reflection is humanity in its darkest configuration.

Billy Budd and John Claggart are opposing forces. Billy Budd who is described as 'strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess recited. Ashore he the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost.? John Claggart, a man ?in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ?a depravity according to nature.?? These two people who are clearly on opposite sides of the spectrum contrast one another in a plethora of ways. Where Billy is sweet, John is bitter. Where Billy is na've, John is knowledgeable. Where Billy is content, John is jealous. Lastly, where Billy is good, John is bad.

The ugliness that results in the death of both men ...

You are currently seeing 50% of this paper.

You're seeing 239 words of 477.

Keywords: bill buddy, billy budd, bill budd obituary, bill buddy gask, bill budde, bill buddy pty ltd, bill budding, bill budde hyosung

Similar essays


Eight men out

Eight Men Out In the golden days of baseball, where the heros became legends and young fans could actually afford to pay to attend the games, an incident that would scar baseball for life was committed in the World Series of 1919. Based on the Elliot Asinof's 1963 best-seller of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, Eight Men Out is an attempt to...

4 reviews
Download
Realism verses romanticism in

Realism and Romanticism in A Midsummer Night?s Dream In A Midummer Night?s Dream, Theseus states, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of an imagination all compact" (Act5, Scene 1). Love, in this play, is viewed in different ways. While the four main characters believe in romanticism, Theseus is a strong supporter of realism....

15 reviews
Download
Master and slave

. an analysis Each of the characters in The Tempest finds themselves in bondage. However, by the end of the story, the same characters are set free from whatever enslaves them. A few characters one can see enslaved are Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, and Caliban. Prospero is in bondage to his magic. Since his exile by his brother from his dukedom...

39 reviews
Download
A circular life ( when the leg

A Circular Life(When The Legends Die) When the Legends Die, by Hal Borland, is a novel in which traces the life of Tom Black Bull from a young Indian boy to an older, mature adult. Thus meaning When the Legends Die is a bildungsroman. A bildungsroman is a novel in which the protagonist from beginning to the end matures, and in a cla...

82 reviews
Download
New Women of the Victorian Era

By: Teddy Ruxpin 13MAY98 'New Women' of the Victorian Era The Victorian era brought about many changes throughout Great Britain. Man was searching for new avenues of enlightenment. The quest for knowledge and understanding became an acceptable practice throughout much of the scientific community. It was becoming accepted, and in many ways e...

26 reviews
Download
Atsisiųsti šį darbą