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Essay Galaxy - Billy Budd - Criminal Without
How would you feel if you were told you cheated on a test, that you really did not, by a teacher who hated you, and will be expelled because of it?
Herman Melvilles Billy Budd relates an allegory of the righteous versus the reprobate by symbolizing Billy Budd, John Claggart, and Captain Vere as Jesus Christ, Lucifer, and God.
The protagonist in the novel is Billy Budd. The experiences that Billy undergoes throughout the novel parallel what Jesus Christ endured in his life. Melville characterizes Billy Budd as an innocent man physically and mentally. The first feature sailors would notice about Billy were his schoolboy features, with blond hair and blue eyes. His suave looks caused some people to refer to him as the handsome sailor(16). Most often sailors were scurvy men, quite often with diseases, who made no effort to uphold a handsome ap....
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