... could be compared to the original garden or type of vineyard found in Genesis 2:8-17. This passage notes that "The Lord planted a garden in the east, toward Eden" (Gen. 2:8) and "Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; ... 5:5). The hedge functions as one enclosure while the wall functions as a second enclosure as in the Persian custom, which was common for gardens in the Middle East. There is also some similarity between the tree of life and the tree of knowledge with the tower and wine vat positioned in Isaiah's vineyard...

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... a snake. Satan is not part of the story of Christ's Passion, and Claggart's temptation of Billy more closely mirrors the serpent's temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden than anything in the Gospels (Watson 1). Like the Serpent, John Claggart represents all that is evil in man. There are not many similarities between God and Captain Vere regarding the ... he eventually ascends, taking the full rose of the dawn'- (Burris 1). In Billy Budd Melville writes: "At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East, was shot thro' with a soft glory as of the fl...

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