Justice and Innocence

Introduction

The subject of this study is the phenomenon of innocence. Innocence is an idea with a rich variety of meanings, some of which can be closely intertwined with religion and myth and others that are more secular and prosaic in nature. There is the innocence of virginity, of gutlessness and of simple harmlessness, embodied in the good-natured and agreeable figure that, like Dickens? Pickwick, is neither Janus-faced nor capable of deception.

What unites these meanings is the sense that innocence is something of great value but also fleeting and in continual danger of being lost or corrupted by a fallen world, sexual conquest or worldly knowledge. Although each of these various meanings are key aspects in the broad spectrum of innocence, the focus of this study is innocence as the exemplary state of moral purity that has long occupied Christianity and the literature it has inspired. It traces a painstaking narrative within this tradition that remains largely unexplored. In the case of Billy Budd, his innocence is a natural phenomenon, a rare state of the soul that causes both admiration as well as, derision (Weiner, 2009, 3-35).

Discussion and analysis

Billy Budd, Melville's remarkable final testament, is one of the most literary tours and most controversial, having been written in the nineteenth century. This novel multifaceted story of a sailor, young and innocent, forced to join a British warship at the time of the French Revolution. Falsely accuse by an NCO dedicated pervert it an implacable hatred, and suffering from a silence caused by emotion. Billy strikes and kills his accuser instinct in the presence of the captain, who immediately seized the scope of this act, to decide on behalf of a law, for it must, without appeal to condemn the young man he knows innocent.

The Critical Review of Billy Budd

"Billy Budd Sailor" is a posthumous novel Melville, written in 1889 and published 1924, tells the story of a young naive and full of honorable intentions that face the oppressive and stifling atmosphere of a hostile crew, perhaps the allegory a closed, enigmatic and inhumane that the world had to Melville. A begrudging officer accuses Billy Bud. A begrudging officer accuses Billy Budd of rebellious tendencies, and the captain had sent for him to hear such accusations from the mouth of the accuser. Billy Budd, stutters, fails to respond, and react by killing the accuser of a punch. Captain imposes martial hanging for Billy Budd, though judges are reluctant. The officer accuses Billy Budd of rebellious tendencies, and the captain had sent for him to hear such accusations from the mouth of the accuser. Billy Budd dies in an apotheosis like that of Christ on the cross. Captain Vere, in imposing the death of Billy Budd the rest of the council of war, argues that the officers are due to its code of conduct, regardless of private morality. Vere argues for a double moral that allows murder and still be innocent, but only if it is the authority. A reflection of this ...