Article: Works of Herman Melville: A Note On The Background Of Billy Budd

Melville, Herman
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
A Note On The Background Of Billy Budd:

Written during the last years of Melville's life, Billy Budd in some
respects represents a resolving of some of the problems which had beset
Melville during his life. Always concerned with the place and welfare of man
in a universe naturally hostile, and made even more so by the rising
industrial revolution (which led to the economic upheavals of 1873-1879),
Melville explores in Billy Budd the tragedy of man's inability to cope with
the difficulties of his own creation. In those late years of his life
following the Civil War, Melville lived through the chaos of reconstruction;
the numerous government scandals; ...

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