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"Billy Budd" By Herman Melville: Captain Vere
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In the novella "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville, Captain Vere is the “
tragic hero”. he is neither good nor evil, but rather a man whose concept of
order, discipline, and legality forces him to obey the codes of an authority
higher than himself even though he may be in personal disagreement.
Capt ....
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....arge would have come to naught if Billy Budd hadn't killed
Claggert by striking him in the head. After that, whether Billy was innocent or
not was no longer at question. Billy had killed a man on board ship, and that
can definitely be seen as an infraction of discipline.
Billy was put on trial, and Vere was torn between his conscience, which
told him to set Billy Budd free, and his need to uphold the law on board ship,
which by all rights meant the execution of Billy Budd. Captain Vere, an
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