Billy Budd & Typee (Cliffs Notes)
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ISBN: 0822002388 / Publisher: Cliff Notes, April 1968
Forty years separate the writing of these books, and Melville's moral concerns are highly visible in...
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Forty years separate the writing of these books, and Melville's moral concerns are highly visible in Billy Budd, in which a young sailor willingly accepts his punishment after accidentally killing an evil man. In Typee, Melville romanticized his own adventures as a merchant seaman on a Polynesian island. Typee is generally considered nothing more than adventure and travel writing, whereas Billy Budd is open to interpretation and is considered a much more literary work.
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