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God created Adam and Eve after his image and likeness, as a result God allowed man to abide in his presence because of their innocence and purity. Once man partook of the forbidden fruit, evil, they were exiled from paradise. In the novel Billy Budd, often paralleled to Adam, the protagonist’s primary quality is his extraordinary and even disturbing innocence, and naïveté. In the novel and the story of Adam and Eve, its clear how evil will destroy innocence. At twenty-one years of age, Billy has never directly confronted evil. Due to his striking good looks and affable nature, he has always been well liked and admired by everyone. As a consequence, he naïvely assumes that other people always mean him the best. He has not yet developed the prudent cynicism of an individual like the dansker, who is well aware of mens evil inclinations. Billy has no defense of a hateful man like Claggart and cannot perceive his malice. If Billy represents innocence, then the antagonist-john Claggart- represents evil. His innate wick