Billy_Budd

Billy Budd In society, when communicating to another person an idea which must be understood, the communicator must develop many strong points to express his/her idea. In Billy Budd, Herman Melville uses many different types of literary techniques and elements to express his idea. In Chapter 29 and “Billy in the Darbies” the power of language is communicated by the use of propaganda. Many different literary devices are used between the two passages. One of which is the use of a hyperbole, which is defined as a deliberate exaggeration. In “Billy in the Darbies,” Melville uses a symbolic hyperbole by saying “Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I’ll dream fast asleep.” This quote captures an image of Billy Budd’s death being glorified, as though he were thrown into the sea like a piece of trash. In Chapter 29 Melville says “...Claggart, in the act of arraigning the man before the captain, was vindictively stabbed to the heart by the suddenly drawn sheath knife of Budd.” The use of “vindictively stabbed” is a immense deliberate exaggeration of the truth, in fact it is a lie. Claggart was not stabbed, he was punched in the head which was billy, melville, budd, quote, irony, claggart, literary, idea, chapter, darbies, allusion, 29, stabbed, saying, reference, propaganda, ironic, however, evil, different, criminal, being, another, again, yet, way, vindictively, understood, two, techniques, story, show, readers, poem, person, perhaps, out, one, obscure, must, man, killed, johnson, image, hyperboles, hyperbole, hero, herman, fathoms, express