Jyotsna singh sengar's List: BILLY BUDD

• flanking

  • to be at the side of something or someone.
• motley

  • different parts, colour men
• bummer

  • a situation which is unpleasant or disappointing.
• forfeited

  • to give up or loose because of law.
• fatalist

  • fatalism- a belief that bad events cannot be avoided.
• ingratiates

  • to make yourself pleasant in order to get someone to like u or do a favour.

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• At an English seaport, Lieutenant Ratcliffe of the H.M.S.
• At an English seaport, Lieutenant Ratcliffe of the H.M.S. Bellipotent
• Our story takes place in 1797 during the Napoleonic Wars,
• The captain of the Bellipotent is named Captain Edward Fairfax Vere or, as the men have nick-named him, Starry Vere.
• Occasionally the men worry that he's a bit snobbish, that he has his nose in the air, but it's usually not a problem.
• Vere has picked up a new master-at-arms for the voyage, a man named John Claggart. No one knows where Claggart came from, but like Billy, he looks too noble and strong to be stuck aboard a ship.
• Dansker, a wise old Danish man
• ship lurches,

  • lurches-to move in a sudden direction or irregularly.
• depraved

  • depraved-morally bad or evil
• animosity

  • a strong dislike or unfriendly feeling.
• Squeak is clever
• conniving,

  • planing secretly in doing something wrong
• allude

  • to mention someone or something in a brief or indirect way.
• eloquent

  • clearer n effectivve language oe giving a clear message
• the spar

  • to practice boxing without hitting hard or
    to argue.
• Sentry

  • guard at door.

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• Alright, let's play a word-association game. I say, Herman Melville, and you say... Moby-Dick!

  • nice to remember
• Melville's first two novels, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were both popular and successful books. They were fairly simple adventure stories based upon his experiences as a sailor in the U.S. Navy,
• critical backlash to his 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
• Melville worked on Billy Budd at the very end of his life, from the years 1888 to 1891. The book was not discovered until 1921,

  • Important
• Except that Weaver's biography, Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic, began a Melville revival that only accelerated when he released the unknown novel Billy Budd in 1924.
• Billy Budd is a taut little morality tale that takes place on board a ship of the English Royal Navy

  • Taut-tight or stretched
• John Claggart's false accusation of Budd as a mutinous man, and the difficult moral and legal decision that falls on the Captain's shoulders as a result. The story is philosophically rich and remarkably nuanced, and the historical situation only adds to the suspense because it takes place in the year 1797, in the mi

  • naunced- quality of something that is not easy to notice but important. eg.he gives a beautifull naunced performance.

  • mutinous- refusal to obey orders in military or ship

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  Christian Symbolism
• redeem

  • to make something less bad
• pervasive

  • present everywhere

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• Theme Analysis
• wiles

  • ways of persuading someone that cleverly trick them into doing something
• Justice
• mitigating

  • making something less harmful unpleasant or bad.
• jeopardized

  • to put in dander

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• rampan

  • of something bad gettting worse.eg disease is rampant in overcrowded city.

• scoffed

  • TO LAUGH AT PERSON FOR SILLY IDEAS.