Billy Budd Sailor

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English

 

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Cheryle K

 

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October 20, 2015

 

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University

 

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A

 

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“The way in which Captain Vere deals with the situation exemplifies how society requires the division of one’s internal thoughts from one’s societal responsibilities” (Davidson 127). “The deepest controversy over Billy Budd hinges upon our estimate of Captain Vere. Unlike Billy and Claggart, Vere is an ordinary man of the world; unlike every other character in the novel, he is called upon to make a moral decision –for even the members of the drumhead court, after they have expressed their reservations , merely agree to accede to the verdict Vere has directed...
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The central question, to put it as bluntly as possible, is whether Vere’s decision, that Billy must be hanged, is the right one. Vere was seen as embodying Melville’s acceptance of the tragic conflict between divine and human law, and of the horrible necessity, upon occasion, of doing what goes against one’s natural feelings for the sake of upholding society’s demands” (Richter 23)...
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