Billy Budd

Billy Budd

By

Herman Melville

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Billy Budd

Introduction

This story depicts how a certain innocent person was condemned and was sentenced to death for a crime he did but with an innocent motive

The story goes on around a certain person 's life in a ship where he was said to be one of the crew . Billy as a character depicted in the story is a person whose innocence

can not be changed into hatred for other people

Though his surrounding is full of people with evil motives , he is still into trusting them with full innocence

Evilness beyond comprehension

Such evilness is beyond the main character 's understanding , and his being weak causes him to lose his sense of defending himself

With this state of the character 's condition , some people around him tend to abuse his weakness , such as the character which is depicted as an evil person in the story who 's Claggart

Claggart as an evil influence in the story caused Billy to use a brutal way to express Billy 's madness because he is speechless Billy was then susceptible in making an attack due to the evil atmosphere on the ship

By Billy 's innocence , he was dragged to the wilderness of violence . It is beyond his comprehention that it is indeed the evil 's intention to ruin the goodness in his heart . Indeed the evilness had him offguard that had caused him to be condemned

The writer depicted his main character 's innocence as something to be really loved and liked by other people but also a personality which is something to be pitied about

Billy depicting Jesus Christ

In simple but complex ways , the main character was said to be somehow depicting Jesus Christ 's sacrifice for the betterment of everyone . He was , as Jesus was condemned to death though they are both innocent

It is showed in the story that the main character 's innocence is really a great lost of its essence in the humankind though it is said to be wrong depicting Christ 's figure in an ordinary man such as Billy who is said to be an unsound person

The distinction between the divine characters of Christ with that of Billy is that Billy will not intentionally give up his life or sacrifice himself for other people 's good . On the contrary , Christ accepted being condemned to death for people in the world 's salvation

Another way in which the story of Billy could depict the story of Christ is the story when Pontius Pilate tends to wash his hand to show that he is not responsible for Christ condemnation

On the other hand in Billy 's story , Captain Vere pushed through the military view of law and condemned Billy because he was thinking about what his mates would think of him if he will not punish Billy with what...