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Essay Archive - Billy Budd: One Needs to Have Morality and Virtue
Billy Budd: One Needs to Have Morality and Virtue
Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent
and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence
of God. Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In
Billy Budd, the author, Herman Melville, presents a question that stems
from this original sin of our first parents: Is it better to be innocent
and ignorant, but good and righteous, or is it better to be experienced
and knowledgeable? Through this b....
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