Mutiny on the Bounty (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Setting: England, the South Pacific, and Tahiti
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Justice, Maturation or coming of age, Love or romance, Leadership, Friendship, Law or legislation, England or English people, Islands, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Sea or seafaring life, Shipwrecks, Adventure, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Navies, Ocean, Mutiny, Tahiti, Tropics
- Locales: England, Canary Islands, Tahiti, South Pacific
Characters Discussed
Lieutenant William Bligh (bli), captain of HMS Bounty; strong, stout, dark-eyed, firm-mouthed, strong-voiced, he is a fanatical disciplinarian and a grafting exploiter of ship’s rationing. He is subject to fits of insane rage.
Roger Byam, the narrator, a retired ship’s captain, at the time of the mutiny a young midshipman and student of languages who has been assigned the job of making a dictionary of the native dialects. He becomes quartermaster after the mutiny. He is acquitted of all complicity.
Fletcher Christian, master’s...
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