The Caine Mutiny "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" This Pulitzer Prize winning drama takes the court martial proceedings against an upright lieutenant who relieved his captain of command in the midst of a harrowing typhoon on the grounds that the captain was psychopathic in the crisis. The Lt. felt the Captain was directing the ship and its crew to certain death and destruction. The odds, along with all naval tradition are against the Lieutenant. However as the witnesses enter the scene and are cross examined during the trial, the weakness of the character of the Captain is revealed in a devastating picture of personal disintegration. With the Captain, upright and proud as he is, trying the dispel any untruths about him, tells, with extreme complexity, the stories of the strawberry incident, the cheese incident and the water incident. Then, as each member called to witness, the story begins to unfold. The Lieutenant begins to look like a true mutineer, and may go down for his acts aboard the ship. The Captain begins to be painted as a psychopath, or possibly just a naval officer who has had one too many near death experiences. This story is sad, heartbreaking and extremely powerful. It shows the lengths some will go, but does the means truly justify the end? You be the judge!