His many novels include Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life 1846, Omoo 1847, Mardi 1849, White Jacket 1850, his fifth and most noted book Moby Dick in 1851 and Pierre 1852. Melville struggled with his religious faith and his attempts to resolve this struggle reappears in varying forms in Moby Dick and Pierre and seems to culminate in Billy Budd. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Why Voltaire and his Ideas are Critical to the Development of Major Themes in Billy Budd In describing Billy Budd's transfer to the Indomitable from the Rights of Man, Melville writes in regards to the latter vessel: That was the merchant ship's name; tho' by her master and crew abbreviated in...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate