Billy Budd: Good Versus Evil
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Although their are many themes incorporated into the novella “ Billy Budd” written by Herman Melville on main theme stays consistent throughout the novella, the theme of good versus evil. In this theme Melville focuses on two main characters Billy Budd and John Claggart. Billy Budd is used in t ....
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.... emotions. To further our understanding of Budd’s likeness to a “ noble savage” Melville states with a allusion to the bible that because of his lack of worldly knowledge he has not yet taken a bite out of the “ questionable apple of knowledge”. Here he compares Budd to Adam and Eve before they were coaxed by the serpent to take a bite of the apple of knowledge. It is in this way that Melville gives the reader the implication that Billy Budd is being used to represent goodness of th ....
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Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
