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Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative

Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative

Melville, Herman

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 1534793917
ISBN13: 9781534793910
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 20 2016
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Billy Budd, Sailor An Inside Narrative Herman Melville Classic Books The plot follows Billy Budd, a seaman impressed into service aboard HMS Bellipotent in the year 1797, when the British Royal Navy was reeling from two major mutinies and was threatened by the Revolutionary French Republic's military ambitions. He is impressed from another ship, The Rights of Man (named after the book by Thomas Paine). As his former ship moves off, Budd shouts, Good-by to you too, old Rights-of-Man. Billy, a foundling, has an openness and natural charisma that makes him popular with the crew. He arouses the antagonism of the ship's master-at-arms John Claggart. Claggart, while not unattractive, seemed somehow defective or abnormal in the constitution, possessing a natural depravity. Envy was Claggart's explicitly stated emotion toward Budd, foremost because of his significant personal beauty, and also for his innocence and general popularity. (Melville further opines envy is universally felt to be more shameful than even felonious crime.) This leads Claggart to falsely charge Billy with conspiracy to mutiny. When the captain, Edward Fairfax Starry Vere, is presented with Claggart's charges, he summons Claggart and Billy to his cabin for a private meeting. Claggart makes his case and Billy, astounded, is unable to respond, due to a stutter which grows more severe with intense emotion. He strikes his accuser to the forehead, and the blow is fatal.

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