Billy Budd
When analyzing someone's actions, it is often difficult to tell whether they are driven by duty, inclination or both. Is what drives a person to do something important, or is it the act itself that we should care about? In the film Billy Budd there are three main characters whose actions are questionable at some point or another. These actions can be explained with the help of three different philosophers.
From the very beginning the title character in the film Billy Budd exemplifies Rousseauian ideals. Billy is taken from a ship called The Rights of Man. This ship, whose name is cleverly reminiscent of the document "Declaration of the Rights of Man", is based on equality. The officials wear plain clothes so that they can not be distinguished from the men working. There is also no division of labor- every man does his part to keep The Rights of Man moving.
When Budd is moved from his ship to the naval Avenger he is thrown into a society that he has never......
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