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Creator/HermanMelville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it spawned a 1949 stage play, a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ 1962 movie]] (directed by Creator/PeterUstinov and starring Creator/TerenceStamp in the title role), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
And it's full of tropes.
And it's full of tropes.
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Creator/HermanMelville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it spawned a 1949 stage play, a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ 1962 movie]] (directed by Creator/PeterUstinov and starring Creator/TerenceStamp in the title role), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) opera version]] by Benjamin Britten]].
And it's full of tropes.Music/BenjaminBritten.
And it's full of tropes.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Vere.
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%%* AFatherToHisMen: Vere.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:It costs him his own life.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Billy
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Claggart apparently doesn't know this rule.
* TheCaptain: Vere.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Billy
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Claggart apparently doesn't know this rule.
* TheCaptain: Vere.
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* TheChessmaster: Claggart.
* CourtMartialed: Billy's trial is central to the plot.
* CourtMartialed: Billy's trial is central to the plot.
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* DownerEnding
* DrivenByEnvy
* DrivenByEnvy
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* EmotionsVsStoicism: Vere and the court-martial.
* FatalFlaw: Billy's stammer.
* FatalFlaw: Billy's stammer.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Claggart
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Keep saying that to yourself, Captain.
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* OfficerAndAGentleman: Vere.
* PassionPlay: Sort of.
* PassionPlay: Sort of.
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* PurpleProse: I know it's a classic, but...
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Claggart is likened to a snake for a reason.
* RuleOfSymbolism: It's filled with [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory biblical]], mythological and historical symbols.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Claggart is likened to a snake for a reason.
* RuleOfSymbolism: It's filled with [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory biblical]], mythological and historical symbols.
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* WarriorPoet: Vere.
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen
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Creator/HermanMelville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it spawned a 1949 stage play, a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ 1962 movie]] (directed by Creator/PeterUstinov and starring Creator/TerenceStamp in the title role), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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Creator/HermanMelville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it also inspired a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ movie]] (directed by Creator/PeterUstinov), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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Creator/HermanMelville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it also inspired spawned a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ 1962 movie]] (directed by Creator/PeterUstinov), Creator/PeterUstinov and starring Creator/TerenceStamp in the title role), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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* {{Bishonen}}: Billy.
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!!The Book
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* KangarooCourt: There are undertones of that throughout the trial, especially since [[spoiler:TheCaptain has decided even before that that Billy has to hang for killing Claggart, regardless of circumstances. When the officers are about to acquit Billy, Vere steps in a pretty much forces them to hand down the guilty verdict. This is done to keep any other sailor from thinking that they can get away with killing an officer rather than any facts of the case]].
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* KangarooCourt: There are undertones of that throughout the trial, especially since [[spoiler:TheCaptain has decided even before that that Billy has to hang for killing Claggart, regardless of circumstances. When the officers are about to acquit Billy, Vere steps in a and pretty much forces them to hand down the guilty verdict. This is done to keep any other sailor from thinking that they can get away with killing an officer rather than any facts of the case]].
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* {{Angrish}}: Budd is very prone to stammer under stress, and that is why he cannot defend himself in front of Captain Vere and resort to violence.
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* {{Angrish}}: Budd is very prone to stammer under stress, and that is why he cannot defend himself in front of Captain Vere and resort Vere. He resorts to violence.violence instead.
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Creator/HermanMelville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it also inspired a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ movie]] (directed by Peter Ustinov), Creator/PeterUstinov), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: "God Bless Captain Vere!" [[spoiler:Billy says this before he's hanged in order to convince the outraged crew not to mutiny.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Claggart. Vere declares: "It is the divine judgement on Ananias!" and "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!"]]
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* KarmicDeath: KarmicDeath:
** [[spoiler:Claggart. Vere declares: "It is the divine judgement on Ananias!" and "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel musthang!"]]hang!"]]
** In the film version, [[spoiler:Vere himself. Minutes after having Billy hang, a battle breaks out with a French warship. Vere's body can be seen lying motionless, while the crew is busy at their battle stations]].
** [[spoiler:Claggart. Vere declares: "It is the divine judgement on Ananias!" and "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must
** In the film version, [[spoiler:Vere himself. Minutes after having Billy hang, a battle breaks out with a French warship. Vere's body can be seen lying motionless, while the crew is busy at their battle stations]].
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* MeaningfulName: Billy's former ship ''The Rights Of Man'' is named after a book by Creator/ThomasPaine. When Billy is being PressGanged into the crew of the HMS ''Bellipotent'', he shouts goodbye to his ship, symbolizing the end of his life as a free citizen.
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* PressGanged: The story starts with Billy being pressed into service aboard the man-of-war. "And farewell to ye, old ''Rights o' Man''!"
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* PressGanged: The story starts with Billy being pressed into service aboard the man-of-war. "And farewell Billy's parting words to ye, his former ship ("Good-bye to you too, old ''Rights o' Man''!"''Rights-of-Man''!") are meant to be symbolic, as he's being forced to enter the military, where his rights as an individual are severely curtailed.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: When Billy cannot communicate with words, he communicates with lethal blows...
* PressGanged: The story starts with Billy being pressed into service aboard the man-of-war.
* PressGanged: The story starts with Billy being pressed into service aboard the man-of-war.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: When Billy cannot communicate with words, he communicates with lethal blows...
blows... This is lampshaded at the very beginning.
* PressGanged: The story starts with Billy being pressed into service aboard the man-of-war. "And farewell to ye, old ''Rights o' Man''!"
* PressGanged: The story starts with Billy being pressed into service aboard the man-of-war. "And farewell to ye, old ''Rights o' Man''!"
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* HelloSailor - um, have I mentioned it's placed on a man-of-war filled with sailors? And that our title character is angelically handsome?
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* HelloSailor - um, HelloSailor: Um, have I mentioned it's placed on a man-of-war filled with sailors? And that our title character is angelically handsome?
* KangarooCourt: There are undertones of that throughout the trial, especially since [[spoiler:TheCaptain has decided even before that that Billy has to hang for killing Claggart, regardless of circumstances. When the officers are about to acquit Billy, Vere steps in a pretty much forces them to hand down the guilty verdict. This is done to keep any other sailor from thinking that they can get away with killing an officer rather than any facts of the case]].
* TheMutiny: [[spoiler:Billy's hanging]] nearly results in one, but [[spoiler:Billy's final words]] and [[spoiler:the sighting of a French warship]] put the kibosh on that.
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* PurpleProse I know it's a classic, but...
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* PurpleProse PressGanged: The story starts with Billy being pressed into service aboard the man-of-war.
* PurpleProse: I know it's a classic, but...
* PurpleProse: I know it's a classic, but...
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Herman Melville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it also inspired a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ movie]] (directed by Peter Ustinov), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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* FreudWasRight:
** Soup-spilling scene. First, the soup itself, descibed as "greasy fluid". Second, Claggart's reaction: "Pausing, he was about to ''ejaculate'' something hasty at the sailor, but checked himself, and pointing down to the streaming soup, playfully tapped him from ''behind'' with his ''rattan'', saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times, "Handsomely done, my lad! And handsome is as handsome did it too!"" (Emphasis mine; if this is not subtext, nothing is.)
** "Jemmy Legs is down on you." Even the old wise guy knows it.
** "To be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he [Claggart] saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain would have shared it, but he despaired of it."
** "When Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd; that glance would follow the cheerful sea-Hyperion with a settled meditative and melancholy expression, his eyes strangely suffused with incipient feverish tears. Then would Claggart look like the man of sorrows. Yes, and sometimes the melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if Claggart could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban."
** Soup-spilling scene. First, the soup itself, descibed as "greasy fluid". Second, Claggart's reaction: "Pausing, he was about to ''ejaculate'' something hasty at the sailor, but checked himself, and pointing down to the streaming soup, playfully tapped him from ''behind'' with his ''rattan'', saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times, "Handsomely done, my lad! And handsome is as handsome did it too!"" (Emphasis mine; if this is not subtext, nothing is.)
** "Jemmy Legs is down on you." Even the old wise guy knows it.
** "To be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he [Claggart] saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain would have shared it, but he despaired of it."
** "When Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd; that glance would follow the cheerful sea-Hyperion with a settled meditative and melancholy expression, his eyes strangely suffused with incipient feverish tears. Then would Claggart look like the man of sorrows. Yes, and sometimes the melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if Claggart could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban."
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* CourtMartialed: Billy's trial is central to the plot.
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* HelloSailor - um, have I mentioned it's placed on a man-of-war filled with sailors?
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* HelloSailor - um, have I mentioned it's placed on a man-of-war filled with sailors?sailors? And that our title character is angelically handsome?
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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarthTooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Billy Budd, pure of singing voice and angelic of face, full of good will and eagerness to just be the best sailor he can be. He's morally incorruptible. The only "flaw" he has is his stammer, and this costs him his life, because the system he's entered is so vile and corrupt.
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Herman Melville wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] - which also inspired a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ movie]] (directed by Peter Ustinov), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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Herman Melville Melville, in the last years of his life, wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] - which Sailor]]. Published posthumously in 1924, it also inspired a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ movie]] (directed by Peter Ustinov), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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* HairOfGold: Billy
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Claggart is descibed "His brow was of the sort phrenologically associated with more than average intellect; silken jet curls partly clustering over it, making a foil to the pallor below, a pallor tinged with a faint shade of amber akin to the hue of time-tinted marbles of old. This complexion, singularly contrasting with the red or deeply bronzed visages of the sailors, and in part the result of his official seclusion from the sunlight, tho' it was not exactly displeasing, nevertheless seemed to hint of something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood." And he also has [[VioletEyes violet eyes]]. Super evil.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Claggart is descibed "His brow was of the sort phrenologically associated with more than average intellect; silken jet curls partly clustering over it, making a foil to the pallor below, a pallor tinged with a faint shade of amber akin to the hue of time-tinted marbles of old. This complexion, singularly contrasting with the red or deeply bronzed visages of the sailors, and in part the result of his official seclusion from the sunlight, tho' it was not exactly displeasing, nevertheless seemed to hint of something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood." And he also has [[VioletEyes violet eyes]].eyes. Super evil.
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* HoYay - The whole story is about it.
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* FoeYay: Claggart towards Billy, who's too innocent to notice it.
* FreudWasRight:
** Soup-spilling scene. First, the soup itself, descibed as "greasy fluid". Second, Claggart's reaction: "Pausing, he was about to ''ejaculate'' something hasty at the sailor, but checked himself, and pointing down to the streaming soup, playfully tapped him from ''behind'' with his ''rattan'', saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times, "Handsomely done, my lad! And handsome is as handsome did it too!"" (Emphasis mine; if this is not subtext, nothing is.)
** "Jemmy Legs is down on you." Even the old wise guy knows it.
** "To be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he [Claggart] saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain would have shared it, but he despaired of it."
** "When Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd; that glance would follow the cheerful sea-Hyperion with a settled meditative and melancholy expression, his eyes strangely suffused with incipient feverish tears. Then would Claggart look like the man of sorrows. Yes, and sometimes the melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if Claggart could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban."
* FreudWasRight:
** Soup-spilling scene. First, the soup itself, descibed as "greasy fluid". Second, Claggart's reaction: "Pausing, he was about to ''ejaculate'' something hasty at the sailor, but checked himself, and pointing down to the streaming soup, playfully tapped him from ''behind'' with his ''rattan'', saying in a low musical voice peculiar to him at times, "Handsomely done, my lad! And handsome is as handsome did it too!"" (Emphasis mine; if this is not subtext, nothing is.)
** "Jemmy Legs is down on you." Even the old wise guy knows it.
** "To be nothing more than innocent! Yet in an aesthetic way he [Claggart] saw the charm of it, the courageous free-and-easy temper of it, and fain would have shared it, but he despaired of it."
** "When Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd; that glance would follow the cheerful sea-Hyperion with a settled meditative and melancholy expression, his eyes strangely suffused with incipient feverish tears. Then would Claggart look like the man of sorrows. Yes, and sometimes the melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if Claggart could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban."
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Herman Melville wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] - which also inspired a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ movie]] (directed by Peter Ustinov), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
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Herman Melville wrote a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_budd sad tale about the Handsome Sailor]] - which also inspired a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055796/ movie]] (directed by Peter Ustinov), as well as an [[Theatre/BillyBudd opera]] [[[[http://en.[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd_(opera) by Benjamin Britten]].
