From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... Melville in the 19th century, who lashed out at military injustice in
Billy Budd, ...
Melville's cousin Guert Gansevoort was a key figure in a naval scandal that
helped to inspire Billy Budd. Gansevoort, a navy lieutenant, was first
officer of the
Encompassing elements of Patrick O'Brian's first and final novels, Peter
Weir's exciting but reactionary Master and Commander: The Far Side of
the World might strike one as the dialectical opposite of Herman
Melville's sea-going tales. Melville's anti-authoritarianism and
sympathy for workers
Louis Proyect writes:
In the climax of the film, Aubrey rouses his men with the cry, Do you
want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly? Do you want your children to
grow up singing the 'Marseillaise'? Oddly enough, this evokes the
climactic scene in Shakespeare's Henry V, when the British monarch
