Billy Budd

In society, when communicating to another person an idea which must be understood, the communicator must develop many strong points to express his/her idea. In Billy Budd, Herman Melville uses many different types of literary techniques and elements to express his idea. In Chapter 29 and “Billy in the Darbies” the power of language is communicated by the use of propaganda. Many different literary devices are used between the two passages. One of which is …

…message to a reader. Herman Melville accomplishes this beautifully through the use of hyperboles, allusions, similes, and metaphors. The tendency of Melville presenting Billy Budd as evil, strikes an outrageous idea. A theory that Melville may have reexamined his own writing and when he read the chapter when Billy Budd killed Claggart, perhaps he saw it different. Perhaps he believed that Billy Budd consciously killed Claggart, and that indeed it was not a sudden reaction