Successive blows: characterisation, motivations and conflicts in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor

Petruska, Helga (2007) Successive blows: characterisation, motivations and conflicts in Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor. Masters, Szegedi Tudományegyetem.

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with Herman Melville's last novel, Billy Budd, the Sailor, examining mainly the types of characters and the ways of characterisation. All the ways, in which this novel has been interpreted after the posthumous publication from the early 20thcentury, go back to characterisation. As a result, it is essential to count the detailed outer and inner features of Billy Budd and his relationship with his former and new environment especially with his two superiors so that we can analyse any kind of allegorical interpretation which is widely accepted in the reception of Billy Budd. After the depiction of the characters I try to analyse the structure of the plot, drawing parallel between two similar events at the beginning and ending of the novel that work as frame and make Billy's character more understandable. I explore the motivation of characters in consequence of which the plot seems to be the series of blows in real and figurative sense of the word. It is not surprising that the novel itself is also understandable as Melville's fist which smashed upon the literary taste which had exiled him from the 19 thcentury literary canon.

Hungarian title

Sorozatos ütések: jellemábrázolás, motivációs háttér és konfliktusok Herman Melville: Billybudd, a tengerész című regényében

Institution

Szegedi Tudományegyetem

Faculty

Gyula Juhász Faculty of Education

Department

Modern Nyelvek és Kultúrák Tanszék

Discipline

Teacher Training

Specialization

angol

Supervisor(s)

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	05. Social sciences > 05.03. Educational sciences
Depositing User:	Szerkesztő JGYPK
Date Deposited:	2019. Apr. 08. 13:56
Last Modified:	2019. Apr. 11. 08:50
URI:	https://diploma.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/72824

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