#The caine mutiny full

This time, she dips into The Odyssey for the legend of Circe, a nymph who turns Odysseus’ crew of men into pigs. The writer returns to Homer, the wellspring that led her to an Orange Prize for The Song of Achilles (2012). Imagine all the prayers.” So says Circe, a sly, petulant, and finally commanding voice that narrates the entirety of Miller’s dazzling second novel. The last part of the book, the Court Martial and its aftermath, seems slightly anticlimactic, but all in all this stands out as perhaps the most important novel of the war in the Pacific.Ī retelling of ancient Greek lore gives exhilarating voice to a witch.

The plot, with all the ramifications of routine, shore leave, home entanglements, builds up to the moment when Maryk, laboriously self-tutored, takes over the command and Queeg is confuted.

#The caine mutiny full

The Caine is an almost derelict minesweeper, and as the story develops, you know her full complement of officers and men, with Ensign (later Lieutenant) Willie Keith a central figure. Queeg is a modern Captain Bligh without his abilities, his seamanship, his ideals. Here is World War II's Mutiny on the Bounty. The story of the Caine has probably been drawn from many dramas of the Pacific, dramas in which the Captain, a martinet, is the villain and the victim of his frustrations and his sadism. It lacks the quick 'gag' play, but the situations, even when tragic, are brightened by humor. It has the underlying sense of values of Tales of the South Pacific. This has the sombre and dramatic values of Mister Roberts.