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Billy Bud
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Herman Mellville's Billy Budd is and extremely divisive novel when one considers the dissension it has generated. The criticism has essentially focused around the argument of acceptance vs. resistance. On the one hand we can read the story as accepting the hanging of d as the necessary ends of jus ....
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....as killed, but he states the utterance as a response without truly feeling apologetic. This statement is a plea to save himself more that a eulogy to Claggart, however a feeling of remorse for murdering another human being is nowhere to be found. His concerns lie not with the one he killed, only with himself.
After the Hanging of d, the story no longer relates the events on board the Indomitable. For this reason we are never shown Vere's emotional reaction to the decision to kill Budd. The only .... |
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