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Billy Budd “Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass…” – Northrop Frye One can compare Billy Budd to the tallest, biggest, and oldest tree in the forest. Even though Billy Budd isn’t old, he certainly has as much sailing experience and expertise as some of the older sailors. He also has the position of foretopman which is the position at the highest point on the ship. In the quote above, Billy Budd represents the tree, and the other sailors represent the clump of grass. He is the most looked up to on the Indomitable and on the Rights-of-man. Billy Budd definitely is a very strong man and is held as the top sailor in everyone’s mind. The other sailors and shipmen around him, all look up to him as if he has some sort of grand, h