Billy Budd's Biblical Connections
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Billy Budd’s Biblical Connections
This book report is about Billy Budd, by Herman Melville. It was Melville’s final novel, and was published in 1924, over 30 years after his death. Billy Budd is a basic battle of good and evil, with evil deceiving good, and good taking the final victory. But the unusual twist put into this story, is the fate of common law. The main theme for Billy Budd is that society corrupts the innocent.
The main story line of Billy Budd starts with a sailor named Billy Budd serving on a merchant ship, The Rights of Man, in the Atlantic Ocean, on the European coast, in 1797. While sailing, the ship is halted by a British man of war ship, H.M.S. Bellipotent, in need of men. Only one of the sailors on board the merchant ship decides to take a navy sailing job: Billy Budd. Aboard the navy ship, Billy takes the job as foretopman....