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IrinaVladis [17]
3 years ago
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"Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the gro

undlings, among the beggars and rakers of garbage, profound passion is enacted. And the circumstances that provoke it, however, trivial or mean, are no measure of its power."
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Serga [27]3 years ago
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Answer:

The given passage is taken from "Billy Bud, Sailor" written by Herman Melville.

Explanation:

The text appears in Chapter 13 of the novel.

Billy Bud is a sailor and the protagonist of the novel.

The narrator in this text is referring to Claggart's passions. The narrator states that passions can bring a person to his lowest point and it does not require 'palatial stage' to be provoked. In this passage, Claggart had started to resent Billy.

Claggart is the exact opposite character of Billy. Billy, on the one hand, is innocent, Claggart on the other is evil and wicked.

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