Billy Budd: One Needs to Have Morality and Virtue Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God. Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In Billy Budd, the author, Herman Melville, presents a question that stems from this original sin of our first parents: Is it better to be innocent and ignorant, but good and righteous, or is it better to be experienced and knowledgeable? Through this book, Melville is telling that one need to strike some kind of balance between these two ideas; a person needs to have morality and virtue; needs to be in the world, but not of the world. To illustrate his theme, Melville uses a few characters who are all very different, the ....

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