Billy Budd

whaling novel about an epic tale of the voyage of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who relentlessly pursues the great sperm whale for revenge (Melville). His wife’s receipt of a small inheritance allowed Melville to work on his work Billy Budd. However, Melville’s death from cardiovascular disease in 1891 subdued a reviving interest in his works thirty-three years later and it was acclaimed a masterpiece…

Angoon On October 26th, 1882 Angoon Alaska was shelled and burned by the US Navy after a dispute and alleged hostage situation. The Shaman of the Tlingit tribe was taken on a whale boat where a harpoon gun exploded, killing the medicine man of the tribe. The tribe mourned for 4 days after they received the news, they did nothing. After the monstrosity, the tribe only asked for 200 blankets and an apology from the US Navy, what they received was $90,000 from Congress. The conflict occurred…

they see, that filming is a mechanical process that does not implicate any hard work but “merely register[s] external appearances, and therefore cannot be art” (Stam 2008: 7). However, DeWitt Bodeen, co-author of the screenplay for Peter Ustinov’s Billy Budd (1962), claims that: “Adapting literary works to film is, without doubt, a creative undertaking” (qtd. in McFarlane 1996: 7). Besides, a film director always faces choices: in novels all the most important details are described, but a…

When considering the relationship between law and literature, one might come to the conclusion that the intersection between the disciplines is one of interrogation. Literature enables man to ask questions of the letter of the law without endangering himself. If this scenario were to happen, how would this be handled legally? Is the legal decision just and/or moral? It enables man to venture into the psyche of the legally accused and say, “Is this man guilty? Does guilt imply evil? What if I…

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