Billy Sherwood

In Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, readers are introduced to the conflict of good and evil between Billy Budd and Claggart. However, there is another conflict, which, in ways is more significant than the epic clash of good and evil. Vere’s struggle between duty and conscience is more significant because it occurs in the mind. Whereas Billy Budd was clearly the noble sacrificed hero and Claggart was the vindictive villain, duty is just as noble as conscience and conscience is just as noble as

Every song has a story to tell, and some contain hidden stories or lessons, while others are completely blatant. In Billy Joel’s song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” he does not hesitate to be very obvious with what he tries to prove, which is how all of the events in his song contribute to one large fire. I chose to remediate Joel’s song because it spoke to me with historical context. When researching the song, I read a majority of the history behind it and decided to reflect upon it in a visual picture

A Comparison between Billy Liar and Shirley Valentine I have just been studying Billy Liar and performing it as part of my mock scripted drama GCSE, and have been asked to compare this theatre script to the film script of Shirley Valentine. I have already given the first difference between these two scripts; one is a theatre script and the other is designed specifically for the big screen. Billy Liar was originally a novel written by Keith Waterhouse, who with the help of Willis Hall made

from Vonnegut’s novel to show how the sight of powerful destruction inspires the readers and how this idea deviates from Weisenburger’s claim in which violence supports a moral code. ¶7 Topic Sentence: Billy Pilgrim is at least in part playing a Christ figure. Function: The author analyzes Billy Pilgrim, the main character of Vonnegut’s novel, and claims that there are similarity between him and Christ. By analyzing Billy’s actions author is able to illustrate what makes him resemble Christ and

(Vonnegut, 22), but why? Well, in Vonnegut’s words it is a failure because, “there is nothing intelligent about a massacre” (Vonnegut, 19). He has nothing intelligent to write about it, so it fails at being a good, successful book. The article Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: A Psychiatric Approach to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five” is a good example, “But not many words about Dresden come to mind then,..And not many words come now either…”(Gulani, 2). Gulani’s point relates to Vonnegut’s, she knows not many

be classified as historical fiction, science fiction and an autobiography (certain parts of the protagonist’s life are similar to Vonnegut’s life) at the same time. Slaughterhouse Five follows the life and journeys of Billy Pilgrim, the main character in this non-linear novel. Billy has lived his life as a social outcast, a stereotypically weak and unpopular boy. He is a joke of a soldier when he is drafted into the Army and he soon becomes “unstuck in time”, or so he says. The

observation of fundamental physical mechanics based on the “5 tools model;” running, throwing, fielding and power hitting. However, Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta determined that players who possessed “plate discipline,” or the ability to control the outcome during batting was the hidden, intangible value that a player is born with and is nearly impossible to coach or evaluate. Billy Beane, et al., challenged the conventional wisdom that the best method to evaluate a player’s skill is to evaluate their physical

‘All men are afraid in battle,’ said General Patton. ‘The coward is the one who lets fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.’ How do Pat Barker and Kurt Vonnegut address the theme of masculinity in war? Masculinity in war is a key theme explored in both Slaughterhouse 5 and Regeneration. It is expressed as a characterisation that is not preserved and that is continuously changing. The authors use soldiers who begin to doubt their masculinity which is of utmost important

humor, and even the humor in his style of writing. Vonnegut also shows the lasting effects of the war on people involved through the main character, Billy Pilgrim, and his journey through life struggling with his PTSD and conflicting philosophies caused by it. Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five shows the theme of anti-war through humor and by Billy Pilgrim’s psychiatric state. Vonnegut is a humorist in his style of writing. It is his signature style of writing (“So It Goes” 3). Humor can be

Style in Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Billy Budd       "Sublime refers to an aesthetic value in which the primary factor is the presence or suggestion of transcendent vastness or greatness, as of power, heroism, extent in space or time"(Internet Encyclopedia).  This essay will explore different levels of Romanticism's sublime style in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Herman Melville's Billy Budd. The essay will particularly focus on how the writers