This story depicts how a certain innocent person was condemned and was sentenced to death for a crime he did but with an innocent motive.
The story goes on around a certain person's life in a ship where he was said to be one of the crew. Billy as a character depicted in the story is a person whose innocence can not be changed into hatred for other people.
Though his surrounding is full of people with evil motives, he is still into trusting them with full innocence.
Evilness beyond comprehension
Such evilness is beyond the main character's understanding, and his being weak causes him to lose his sense of defending himself.
With this state of the character's condition, some people around him tend to abuse his weakness, such as the character which is depicted as an evil person in the story who?s Claggart.
Claggart as an evil influence in the story caused Billy to use a brutal way to express Billy?s madness because he is speechless, Billy was then susceptible in making an attack due to the evil atmosphere on the ship.
By Billy?s innocence, he was dragged to the wilderness of violence. It is beyond his comprehension that it is indeed the evil?s intention to ruin the goodness in his heart. Indeed the evilness had him off guard that had caused him to be condemned.
The writer depicted his main character?s innocence as something to be really loved and liked by other people but also a personality which is something to be pitied about.
Billy depicting Jesus Christ
In simple but complex ways, the main character was said to be somehow depicting Jesus Christ?s sacrifice for the betterment of everyone. He was, as Jesus was condemned to death though they are both innocent.
It is showed in the story that the main character?s in...
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...could cause a certain person weakness and vulnerability that could be the main cause for him/her to be deprived by others by his own life.
Thesis
This story only tends to show the readers how difficult it is to live in this world full of evil forces thus a person like Billy is innocent about such thing. It depicts how a human would only suffer of his innocence in this kind of world.
And that innocence is vulnerable to evilness and deprivation to life as the character was deprived of his life due to his innocence and lack of comprehension about evilness.
Also that the law which is supposed to give justice, it is the one that deprives people by not considering a certain accused persons statement or side.
The kind of law in the story is the one that manipulates a person to view the case in a right manner according to the true essence of justice (Melville, 1924).
time as a prisoner, Billy learned that humans do not have control of their own free will.
Billy constantly feels bad about the choices he makes. While Billy is in the ward, he is surrounded by many strong women who are all in charge. The main nurse, Nurse Ratched, is constantly watching over him due to her relationship with his mother, who doesn’t want him to grow up. With these expectations from his mother and Nurse Ratched, Billy conforms into a thirty year old man who is afraid to think for himself. Billy is still a virgin when he enters the ward, due to his mother not letting him think for himself. This causes Billy to constantly feel guilty and unhappy when he makes choices for himself, because those around him made him believe that he does not deserve to make his own choices. When Billy finally did something for himself
The main event that leads Billy to all his confusion is the time he spent in Dresden and witnessed the fire-bombings that constantly pop in his head along with pictures of all the innocent people Billy saw that fled to Dresden the "safe spot" from the war before the bombing. When Billy sees the faces of the innocent children it represents his fear of the situation. Billy can't acknowledge the fact that they were innocent and they were killed by Americans, Americans soldiers just like himself. The biggest issue Billy cannot come to grasp with is why the bombings took place. That question has no answer; it's just something that happened that Billy couldn't get over. During all Billy's travels back to Dresden he couldn't change what had really happened there although that was the closure he was looking for. Dresden purely represents Bill's past and fears of the truth about what happened.
Billy is used to showing that everything happens because of fate. As a prisoner, Billy has no control over his day to day life. While Billy is in Dresden, the city is bombed, because of luck, only Billy and a few others survive the bombing in a slaughterhouse. The people of Tralfamadore tell Billy that humans do not understand time because everything they do is in singular progression.
The perspective of evil is also infrared in this play, but it is ignorance of unfolding events that makes potentially good characters loathsome. These characters do not deliberately choose to be on the wrong side of the system, but they are ignorant of events behind the scenes, and this ends up shaping their character. Danforth and...
Innocence is perceived in our society as a desirable trait. It is at odds with guilt making it the preferred of the two. However, innocence can also be at odds with experience. In this case innocence can weigh down an individual and not allow them to be as elevated as they could be. In the short story, Blue Bouquet a man is visiting a town when one night he decides to take a walk in the dark. He begins his journey in awe of the town but is soon aware of the dangers that it has lurking in the corners. As he is walking he is confronted by the antagonist who is in search of creating a bouquet of blue eyes. The protagonist having brown eyes is spared but being shaken by the encounter leaves town
Billy was trying to be a role model, but he didn’t have the greatest role model. Billy’s grandfather William Crook, who he was named after, wasn’t the greatest influence. He was a heavy drinker and cussed like a sailor. Those were two things Graham didn’t want to show his younger siblings (Graham 3). During his childhood, his father and his Uncle Clyde ran the dairy farm his family lived on (Graham 6). Billy was a young boy when he started helping around the farm (Graham 9). Billy learned that one of the things he needed to show his younger siblings was that hard work and dedication paid off. Billy’...
verses evil, the monster is meant to be evil but we as the reader feel
At first it is seen as a story about man and the evils he can do, yet
Loss of innocence is a time-worn theme in the literature of every culture. It traditionally takes the form of some type of epiphany visited upon an unsophisticated character as she grows up and encounters the larger world. The focus of this theme is normally personal, in the point of view of an individual, or the omnipotent third person account of the reaction of an individual. While this aspect can be found in the novel, it additionally explores the loss of innocence of a family, people or race, called estirpe in the original edition.
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Billy first near death experience was, “Early in 1968, a group of optometrist, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal. The plane crashed on top of Sugarbush Mountain, in Vermont. Everybody was killed but Billy. So it goes.” (Vonnegut, 60) This horrible experience made Billy snap to reality that death is something that happens to everyone and you can’t escape it. Negativity flows as an example within the theme of war because before Billy had learned to cope he dwelled on death. Before you realize it Billy is faced with war when, “American fighter planes came in under the smoke to see if anything was moving. They saw Billy and the rest down there. The planes sprayed them with machine-gun bullets, but the bullets missed. Then they saw some other people moving down by the riverside and they shot at them. They hit some of them. So it goes. The idea was to hasten the end of the war.” (Vonnegut, 378-379) There is no way to describe the tragedy. These people are...
Due of this, the film lacks much explanation of the significance of the crucifixion of Jesus. While it gives a good description of the crucifixion itself, it does not show why this event was so significant. This relates to our work this semester in learning about Jesus, but mostly because of its description of a historical event (albeit dramatized), rather than showing the significance of that event. In general the film does a good job of portraying the immense suffering of Jesus before and during the crucifixion, with Jesus coming across as a deeply sympathetic character. However, it does not depict the Jesus and the crucifixion its their theological
It is known Billy's innocence was his down fall by hiding the true evil from his eyes. But why was John Claggart out to destroy Billy?. There are several reasons why John Claggart attempts to destroy Billy Budd. John Claggart wants to destroy Billy because he is extremely wary of Billy's intentions. He has come to believe that Billy is planning a mutiny and wants to take over the ship. Claggart reports this to captain Vere saying," During today's chase and possible encounter I had seen enough to convince him that at least one sailor aboard was dangerous." Meaning that he felt Billy was against them. Claggart felt that Billy's big plan was to get in favor of all the men on the ship and then turn them against the captain. Captain Vere responds by having Billy and Claggart meet in private where Claggart can openly accuse Billy of this crime. Fortunately, Claggarts attempt to destroy Billy for mutiny fails because he is struck down by Billy in one blow, ending the matter, but opening a much more serious one.
Billy’s family is broken. Jud, mum and Billy constantly bicker and bully each other. Billy realises that most of his problems come from home and the fact that no one supports him, everything started to go wrong for Billy when his dad left and all we hear about him is that “ He ere a wrong en ”.