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In Henry Melville’s novel , the protagonist, , is a young impressed sailor aboard an English Battleship. Billy shows his actions toward a Christ Figure through his innocence and ignorance, which he shows while interacting with Claggart, the sh ....

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... has no problem with Claggart. Claggart bruptly says to Billy " Is it ignorance or irony". Claggart can’t understand why Billy is trying to befriend him, even though Claggart is despised by all the crew. These actions of innocence and ignorance show Billy as a Christ Figure because he tries to befriend Claggart. He can’t detect the malice and deceit inside the pernicious heart of Claggart, which all of his friends and shipmates can obviously see, by the way he treats others. Which Billy can not because of his innocence and ignorance, in which he can not look past skin deep, in the way he judges people. This is why Billy depicts a Ch ...