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Transcendentalism and Billy Budd

Why I would vote not guilty if I were on Billy Budd's jury.

The two often decided-upon meanings in Billy Budd are analyzed and picked apart, with many examples of critics' reasoning. Then, the author of the essay brings them together and ultimately discards them both.

This article contains spoilers, so read the story before reading this piece. Is Melville's tale simply an argument against capital punishment, or is it much more?

A comparison of the Melville novella and the film

"Genesis of a Gentleman", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, is an account conceived as accurately as possible of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s...

Melville's fiction is fascinating through its multiple themes, both evident and underlying.

In the summer of 1972, it was mutually decided between my longsuffering father and the authorities of Pangbourne, a nautical college that it was best I leave after a year in the fifth form and four years in the college itself.

An exploration of the uncanny effects of cannibalism, sex, and tattoing upon postcolonialism generally, and Melville studies specifically.

Ambiguity in Melville allows readers to place themselves in the shoes of characters, weigh decisions, and assign blame for wrongdoing.

The authors Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allen Poe all demonstrate the intangibility of truth, meaning, and identity through the experiences of their characters.

Death penalty opponents place too much emphasis on this life, and too little on the next.

A review of the "so called" film named Bloodrayne.

This is the story of the Hollywood Ten, as they would become known, and what happened to them because of the blacklist. These 10 men, writers and directors, were among the first to be called to testify.