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Billy Budd Justice Essay

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Bill Budd Story About Justice and Law From the Story of Billy Budd,we are going to focus on fear, innocent of a man, and justice which culminated the center ofthis episode. In a society like the military formation, jealous can be a major cause for mutiny. As was presented from this episode, The British critics called it a masterpiece. As we are going to explore this event that transpired within a ship called “HMS Bellipotent”, a British Royal Navy. We had these major characters presented in the fore-front, John Claggart was a ship master with Billy Budd, a foundling from Bristol who aboard the ship. To his peers, Billy looks good and innocent with a natural charisma that make him popular among the crew. The irony of this ship, may represent their society. Claggart asassessed, wasunattractive, his envy possession’s rises, formed the bedrock against the innocent. In this context between evil and good in our world, Billy Budd represent innocent. The crew in this voyage are the masses whose …show more content…

Also from the beginning times, someone is receiving punishment, whose other people may not know what was his crime. If one asked? The answer will be only God’s knows. Be an innocent, Billy was called upon by Captain Vere to defend himself in allegation of causing a mutiny within the ship and presented by Master Claggart. Real intelligent and knowledge is empowerment, as ignorant is a disease. What is the purpose of beauty in a man, if he cannot stand up, speak out with his mouth especially when it matters. Here, I can now see the irony of, “the only one defect, he was a stutter”. Billy Budd was dumb-founded about the allegation. Sometimes in our society when person’s in authority framed against an individual (ordinary citizen), most often, it may be difficult to come out free. If you are the one, what do you do. People do what they do because of other reason only best justified according to their

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