![]() ![]() He asks an older sailor, the Dansker, for advice, and he tells Billy that Claggart "is down on" Billy. Aboard the Indomitable, Billy is widely admired, but often finds himself in minor trouble. The narrator describes the ship's master-at-arms, a man of uncertain origin named John Claggart. On the Indomitable, though, there was no hint of mutiny, as everyone obeys and respects the intellectual, brave captain, Captain Vere. The narrator's main story takes place in the summer of 1797, soon after a number of mutinies have beset the British navy, including the infamous Nore Mutiny. He has "masculine beauty" and only one flaw: a tendency to stutter when nervous. ![]() Billy is innocent and naïve, and the narrator compares him to Adam in the Garden of Eden. Before following Billy's adjustment to life on his new ship, the narrator describes Billy at greater length. ![]() All the other sailors love Billy and would do anything for him. The captain of the Rights-of-Man, Captain Graveling, tells Lieutenant Ratcliffe of the Indomitable, who has selected Billy for naval service, that he is losing his best sailor. ![]() The narrator describes Billy Budd, a handsome, good-natured young sailor who is taken from his merchant ship, the Rights-of-Man, into service on a British Royal Navy warship, the Indomitable (in some editions, the Bellipotent). ![]()
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