Good and evil exist in all things whether it's in the Power Rangers show we watched as a child or in Herman Melville's novel "Billy Budd". Billy Budd and John Claggart are Melville's portrayal of the opposing forces of good and evil that run throughout all aspects of human experience. Billy is viewed as good and innocent and having no real character flaws except for a stutter and Claggart is an evil man who wants …
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…be at a constant war with evil. Billy Budd and John Claggart are prime examples of good and evil that runs throughout all of life. G.B. Caird believes that good and evil are two forces that are eternally at war and will never meet an end. This belief relates to Billy Budd because Claggart and Billy came to an end in which neither man had won in their search for happiness in their lives.