Bligh is to be admired for his courage, his knowledge and his unswerving purposefulness.... Fletcher Christian, on the other hand, represents the libertine in all of us. He is the free spirit who could not but think wantonly of the freedom of expression that Tahiti had allowed. His body was tattooed and so was his soul. Once he he tasted the forbidden fruit of what he imagined was paradise, there was no going back to England. His men ran riot among naked breasted women of stature and beauty that not even the English aristocracy could dream of. Unlimited in their desires, these libertines tasted whatever pleasure they wished, whenever they felt like, at no apparent cost to their futures. But of course, there always is a price to pay. Untrammelled freedom and liberty gives way to licentiousness, which gives way to avarice, which gives way to violence as each wants more what whey they are already sated with, but do not recognise. In the end, freedom killed them.