In the story, Billy Budd there is innocence vs. evil theme within it, Billy Budd being a good person and innocent and John Claggart being evil. John Claggart was the master-at-arms of the bellipotent, which an office equal to chief of police on board a ship. The crew calls him "Jemmy Legs." Claggart is flat at rude and has no remorse and no end for wickedness and evil behavior. Claggart is an intelligent man so his evilness is subtle and well thought out so it does not seem evil just right off the back. He knows how to disguise his intentions and motives so it is not so obvious. For example, he is very nice to Billy Budd but disguising as we all know that his malice towards him and his spiteful acts to come. Billy Budd is unaware of this though, because he comes from a place where he was always liked and loved and has never encountered evil and hate before so he really does not understand. All Billy wants is to be liked by everyone and he thinks everyone is going to like him because that is all he knows. Because Claggart is so spiteful and hateful he thinks that everyone is like that and blows little things out of proportion. Claggart is just an evil individual and he really wants Billy dead. In the Christian allegory they compare him to Satan because they say he is trying to really to get everyone to go against each other and not trust one another and take away their moral and good faith. Claggart is like the friend who is always instigating trying to start fights just because he wants to see people angry and mad at one another. Claggart's whole intention was to bring about the demise of Billy, which he accomplished. He accomplished this by falsely accusing Billy of mutiny. After Claggart did this, Billy became very angry which was a side of him no one had seen before, and he struck Claggart very hard and killed him. In doing this he forced Billy to abandon his innocence and virtue and committing and evil deed. In do...