In the movie Captain Vere is presented completely different than he is in the book. In the movie he is shown as a man who follows the law of the King's navy. He is able to ignore his feelings and follow the law set by people who have more power than he does. In the book, Vere has all of those qualities previously stated but what the movie does not mention is what his life was like and what the other officers thought of him. The novella states that Captain Vere loves books. He especially loves those that have stories and details about the treatment of man. His own officers say that he acts "like the King's yarn in a coil of Navy rope." I believe that quote says that he is a puppet of the King. All of these aspects of Captain Vere seem to make him a "robot" of the King. The King says and the robot obeys. When Billy kills Claggert, Captain Vere has to d

ecide whether or not Billy should be punished and if so, how he should be punished. He decides to hang Billy. Then the possibility of a revolt on the ship comes up. This revolt would probably cause the death of the Captain and his officers. If he lets Billy go, he would be going against the law that he has sworn to enforce. Since Vere is a law-abiding man, he decides to hang Billy. These ideas were also left out of the movie. This shows that sometimes movies can ruin a good book. What's the answer? Watch a book with your mind.

The movie portrays Claggert very generally. Claggert enjoys watching people suffer. The movie gets this idea across very well by showing Claggert as yearning to see someone being flogged. Flogged is liked being whipped. Claggert is out to destroy the goodness the Billy has because he dislikes all that is good. What the movie also fails to show is the background behind how Claggert got on the ship in the first place. The novella hints that he was a convict in jail and due to a shortage or men in the Navy, the King took men out of the jails and put them on ships. This would show some reasons behind Claggert's wretchedness. This idea may be wrong though. Some people that go to jail aren't evil. They could be in jail because they were wrongly accused of a crime or because of an act they felt was right but the laws had a different view of it. In the end of the story he wrongly accuses Billy of planning a mutiny. Claggert is such and evil man, he is happy before he

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