After the Hanging of Billy Budd, the story no longer relates the events on board the Indomitable. For this reason we are never shown Vere's emotional reaction to the decision to kill Budd. The only reaction we get is immediately before the death, when Billy cries out, "God bless Captian Vere!" At this moment, Vere "stood erectly rigid as a musket in the ship armorer's rack." Melleville accounts for Vere's emotion at this point by describing it as "stoic self control or a sort of momentary paralysis induced by emotional shock." Either Vere is completely indifferent, or he is overcome by the weight of the events and is physically frozen. In either case, no release of emotion is evident and Vere's inner feelings regarding his action are concealed from the reader.

Essentially, injury can be remunerated by pain, which is vitally how punishment works in human culture, and how it works in Billy Budd. Billy's punishment is a hanging which is certainly an infliction of pain. It is th

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