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Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and perspectives for its criticism, this edition will remain the definitive version of a profoundly suggestive story.
The collection is accompanied by an unobtrusive but expert annotation. Probably Melville's finest short work, the incomplete 'Billy Budd,' [is] a striking reworking of the crucifixion set in the English maritime service of the Revolutionary period. This is an accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated and packaged with history of the text and perspectives for its criticism.
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If Melville had never written "Moby Dick," his place in literature would have been assured by his short fiction. The merchant sailor, Billy Budd, is inspected and enlisted for naval service on the Bellipotent. Although his civilian captain is not happy to see him go, he has to release him to the navy.
Billy is a wonderful sailor. All the other sailors like him for his charming looks and honest simple personality. He waves good-bye to his shipmates as he is taken aboard his new ship. Billy does well in his new surroundings. The other sailors like him as much as he was liked on the merchant vessel. He works in the topsails and makes fast friends with his companions and a veteran sailor, referred to as the Dansker.
The captain of the ship is Fairfax Vere. Captain Vere is a very stern man. He is well-read and educated and he speaks often in historical allusions. Many find him to be less than personable and he is not popular with the sailors, although he is respected.
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There is a new master-at-arms on the ship and his name is John Claggart. The job of the master-at-arms has turned into policing his own crew. He is primarily responsible for watching over the men. In recent months there have been mutinies on British ships, so the officers are ill-at-ease. Claggart's job is more difficult as a result of this.
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That would, I think, imply a mixture of admiration and resentment on Melville's part toward his much more successful father-in-law. A tinge of inferiority perhaps? I'll wager Shaw was intimidating over the dinner platters during family visits. The narrator of Billy Budd -- unnamed and not to be automatically regarded as the author -- insists that Starry Vere is a paragon of virtue and duty, yet at several points inserts doubts about Vere's deeper character, including a speculation about his sanity!
The admirable Vere is despicably inadequate in his handling of the confrontation between Budd and Claggart; both the readers and the sailors on the deck of his ship can be heard to mutter against him.
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He cloaks himself in patriotic sanctimony but he deserves no adulation for wisdom here. Of course, he stands as a synecdoche for naval authority, for the tyrannical discipline against which Melville had strenuously protested in his early novel White Jacket. What happens to innocent, honorable Billy Budd is a potent example of what was hopelessly flawed in hierarchical society.
The reader might be excused, I think, for perceiving Billy as "Democracy" martyred by self-righteous Conservatism. And how about the Morality Tale? There are flashes of biblical imagery. There is the weird, mysterious description of Budd's execution by hanging, when his body doesn't twitch and jerk, as if he were sublimated into death without suffering. Surely Melville, whose whole life had been an agony of religious impulse in conflict with disbelief, had something in mind, some intended meaning.
I'd argue that in Billy Budd, God no longer has a role. Perhaps that's the message.
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Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever made much of the thirty-one line poem that concludes the text of Billy Budd. It turns out that Melville had sketched several such nautical ballads, and experimentally prefaced them with brief prose accounts. These were found in his papers in various stages of incompletion. Billy Budd, please remember, was 'unfinished', published many years posthumously, and subject to the decisions of various editors. There are assorted 'definitive' editions. The ballad Billy in the Darbies strikes most readers as an odd anticlimax to the novella, but if you read it on its own terms, it's as bleak a death-wish as you might find at the end of a Viking saga.
The comfort of a burial at sea -- "Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep. Humphrey on Sep 02, The first time I encountered Billy Budd, I was merely 16 years old and incredibly disappointed with Melville's classic. It was unlike anything I had previously encountered, much to my relief. I was turned off by, in my estimation, its excessive length and wordy sentence structure.
I was so turned off, in fact, that I left a less than stellar review of the novella on Amazon. The second time I approached Billy Budd, it was six years later and in an upper level American Literature course. Though I had read it before, I gave it a second try because I had recently read and thoroughly enjoyed Melville's short stories The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids and Bartleby. I was astounded at my changed perspective.
No longer was the story cumbersome and confusing; I found that it was a beautifully written, intricately symbolic masterpiece. The story had meaning and each page felt significant, which had gone unnoticed and unappreciated with my first reading. Though I can't find my old review, I wanted to update my remarks, if not alter them completely. Time and growth allowed me to understand and appreciate this classic.
Life is all about timing. If you didn't enjoy this the first time around, perhaps you should give it another try, too. Peterson on Sep 19, It is surpassed by "Moby-Dick" and surely a few others. But if we revise the question to, "The greatest American novella? What is the competition? BILLY BUDD is an extraordinary work of fiction written at the end of the life, and first published thirty-three years after his death, of an extraordinary writer.
In style and tone, as well as length, it is vastly different than "Moby-Dick".
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Yet it too is very complex, and it is deeply moving, even more so than "Moby-Dick". Billy Budd was a foundling and a happy, handsome, innocent youth who went to sea, sailing on the "Rights of Man", a merchant ship. He is impressed by a man-of-war of the British Navy, the "Bellipotent", where he becomes a foretopman. It is , and the British Navy, recently roiled by several mutinies, is at war with the French. Almost everyone in the crew likes Billy, except the master-of-arms, Claggart, who Melville presents as the evil antithesis of Billy and who harbors a peculiar malice for him.
Claggart goes to the captain of the ship, Vere by name, and reports that Billy is inciting mutiny.