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FREE THE CAINE MUTINY PDF Herman Wouk | 672 pages | 05 Dec 2013 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9781444786071 | English | London, United Kingdom The Caine Mutiny () - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb The Caine Mutinynovel by Herman Woukpublished in The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But the work The Caine Mutiny best known for its portrayal of the neurotic Captain Queegwho becomes obsessed with petty infractions and concerns at the expense of the safety of ship and crew. Print Cite. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. Filmsite - The Caine Mutiny. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years The Caine Mutiny experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree See Article History. Britannica Quiz. Name the Novelist. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Herman Wouk. One of his best-known novels, The Caine Mutinygrew out of these years. This drama The Caine Mutiny naval tradition presented the unforgettable character Captain Queeg and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in It was later made into an acclaimed film starring Humphrey Bogart. Wouk also adapted the…. World War IIconflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years — The war The Caine Mutiny. Captain Queegfictional character, the unstable skipper of the destroyer-minesweeper U. The character was memorably portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in a film also entitled The Caine Mutiny History at your fingertips. The Caine Mutiny up here to see what happened On This Dayevery day in your inbox! Email address. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. The Caine Mutiny | novel by Wouk | Britannica Among its themes, it deals with the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by ship captains. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during Typhoon CobraThe Caine Mutiny December The Caine Mutiny court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot. The story is told through the eyes of Willis Seward "Willie" Keith, an affluent but callow young graduate of Princeton University. He endures inner conflicts over his relationship with his domineering mother and with May Wynn, a beautiful red-haired nightclub singerthe daughter of Italian immigrants. After barely surviving a series of misadventures that earn him the highest number of demerits in his class, he is commissioned as an ensign in the Naval Reserve and assigned to the destroyer minesweeper U. Caine, an obsolete warship converted from a post- World War I -era destroyer. Willie, with a The Caine Mutiny opinion of the Navy, misses his ship when it leaves on a combat assignment. Rather than catch up with it, he plays piano for an admiral who has taken a shine to him. He has second The Caine Mutiny after reading a last letter from his father, who has died of melanoma. But he soon forgets his guilt in the round of parties at the admiral's house. Eventually, he reports aboard the Caine. The ensign immediately disapproves of the ship's decaying condition and slovenly crew. He attributes these conditions to a slackness of discipline by the ship's longtime captain, Lieutenant Commander William De Vriess. Willie's lackadaisical attitude toward what he considers menial duties brings about a humiliating clash with De Vriess when Willie forgets to decode a communique announcing that De Vriess will The Caine Mutiny be relieved. De Vriess is relieved by Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, a strong, by-the-book figure, whom Willie at first believes to be just what the rusty Caine and its rough-necked crew needs. The Caine Mutiny Queeg has never handled a ship like this before, and he soon makes errors that he is unwilling to admit. Caine is sent to San Francisco for an overhaul, in an admiral's hope that the captain will make further mistakes someplace else. Before the ship departs, Queeg browbeats his officers into selling their liquor rations to him. In a breach of regulations, Queeg smuggles the liquor off the ship, and when it is lost, he blackmails Willie into paying for it. Willie sees May on leave, and after unsuccessfully attempting to seduce her, decides he The Caine Mutiny no future with a woman of a lower social class. He resolves to let the relationship die by not replying to her letters. As the Caine begins its missions under his command, Queeg loses the respect of the crew and loyalty of the wardroom through a series of incidents. Tensions aboard the ship cause Queeg to isolate himself from the other officers, who snub him as unworthy, believing him The Caine Mutiny oppressive coward. At The Caine Mutiny point, during the invasion of KwajaleinQueeg is ordered to escort low-lying landing craft to their line of departure. But instead, Qeeg orders the Caine to throw over a yellow dye marker The Caine Mutiny mark the spot, and the Caine hastily leaves the battle area. The officers nickname Queeg "Old Yellowstain," a nickname that implies cowardice. The dynamic, intellectual The Caine Mutiny officer, Lieutenant Thomas Keefer, who had initially coined the nickname of "Old Yellowstain" for Queeg, suggests to the Caine's executive officer, the dutiful Lieutenant Stephen Maryk, that Queeg might be mentally ill. Keefer directs Maryk to "Section " of the Navy Regulationsunder which a subordinate can relieve a commanding officer in extraordinary circumstances. Maryk keeps a secret log The Caine Mutiny Queeg's eccentric behavior and decides to bring it to the attention of Admiral Halseycommanding the Third Fleet. Keefer reluctantly supports Maryk, then gets cold feet and backs out, warning Maryk that his actions will be seen as mutiny. Soon afterward, the Caine is caught in a typhoonThe Caine Mutiny ordeal that sinks three destroyers. At the height of the storm, Queeg's paralysis of action convinces Maryk that he must relieve the captain of command to prevent the loss of the ship. Willie, as Officer of the Decksupports the decision. Maryk turns Caine into the wind and rides out the storm. This sequence of events and its resolution marks the climax and most thrilling portion of the novel, and it parallels Wouk's experiences as Executive Officer aboard the destroyer minesweeper USS Southard in Okinawa during Typhoon Ida in September of Maryk The Caine Mutiny tried by court-martial for " conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline " instead of "making a mutiny. In the courtroom, Keefer distances himself from any responsibility for the relief. Lieutenant Barney Greenwald, a naval aviator who was an attorney in civilian life, represents Maryk. His opinion, after the captain was found sane by three Navy psychiatristsis that Maryk was legally unjustified in relieving Queeg. Despite his own disgust with Maryk's and Willie's actions, Greenwald decides to take the case after deducing Keefer's role. During the trial, Greenwald unrelentingly cross-examines Queeg until he is overcome by stress. Greenwald's attacks on Queeg result in Maryk's acquittal and the dropping of charges against Willie. Maryk, who had aspired to a career in the regular Navyis later sent to command a Landing Craft Infantrya The Caine Mutiny that ruins his Naval career ambitions. Queeg is transferred to a naval supply depot in Iowa. At a party celebrating both the acquittal and Keefer's success at selling his novel to a publisher, an intoxicated Greenwald calls Keefer a coward. The Caine Mutiny tells the gathering that he feels ashamed of having destroyed Queeg on the stand because Queeg and other regular armed-forces officers all did the necessary duty of guarding America in the peacetime Navy, which people like Keefer saw as beneath them. Greenwald asserts that men like Queeg kept Greenwald's The Caine Mutiny mother from being " melted down The Caine Mutiny a bar of soap " by the Nazis. Willie returns to the Caine in the last days of the Okinawa campaign as its executive officer. Keefer is now the captain, and his behavior as captain is similar to Queeg's. The Caine is struck by a kamikazean event in which Willie discovers that he has matured into a naval officer. Keefer panics and orders the ship abandoned, but Willie remains aboard and rescues the situation by heroically dousing the fires. Keefer, discharged after the war ends, is ashamed of his cowardly behavior during the kamikaze attack, especially because his brother Roland had died saving his ship from kamikaze fire. Willie becomes the last captain of the Caine. He receives a Bronze Star Medal for his actions following the kamikaze--and a letter The Caine Mutiny reprimand for his part in unlawfully relieving Queeg. The findings of the court-martial have been overturned after a review by higher authority. Willie agrees in retrospect that the relief was unjustified and probably unnecessary. Willie keeps the Caine afloat during another typhoon and brings it back to Bayonne, New Jerseyfor decommissioning after the end of the war. On reflection, he decides to ask May now a blonde and using The Caine Mutiny real name of Marie Minotti to marry him. However, this will not be as easy as he once thought, as she is now the girlfriend of a popular bandleader, for whom she is the vocalist. The book ends with Willie's and May's situation unresolved, but Willie determined to The Caine Mutiny May to become his wife.

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