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- The Handsome Sailor’s peers would instinctively look up to and follow this naturally superior specimen.
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First, he describes a type of great man, the Handsome Sailor, and then he gives us Billy, who seems representative of this category of man, although the narrator tells us immediately that in several key respects Billy is a divergence from the basic formula.
Billy Budd, called the Handsome Sailor, displays near physical perfection and possesses a purity of innocence alien to the world he inhabits; but a single flaw leads to his destruction as this...
If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth his person ashore, the Handsome Sailor of the period in question evinced nothing of the dandified Billy-be-Damn, an amusing character...
Summary. Recalling the tradition of the Handsome Sailor, the unnamed narrator recalls seeing an example in Liverpool many years before — the striking figure of a native African above average in height. Around his neck he wore a brightly colored scarf which fluttered against his dark, naked chest.
The African sailor shows how a virtuous, handsome sailor can bring together a diverse array of sailors into a tight-knit group of comrades. The narrator says that this kind of handsome sailor was precisely what Billy Budd, also known as "Baby" Budd, was.
Claggart himself reinforces the parallel between appearance and character when he cryptically remarks that “handsome is as handsome did it” in reference to the soup spill. The narrator indicates that a clash between these polar opposites is inevitable.
