Rediscovering the Trauma of War in Slaughterhouse-Five
During times of war soldiers experience horrific atrocities that are mentally and physically crippling. Most cannot begin to comprehend these sinister and morbid images due to their lack of military...
View ArticleThe Role of Color Motifs and Imagery in Slaughterhouse Five
In a literary text, imagery enables the author to appeal to human senses through the use of vivid and descriptive language. Kurt Vonnegut incorporates this rhetorical device throughout the text of his...
View ArticleCoping with Traumatic Experience
Trauma is a tricky thing. It hurts people deeply, and then tricks them into believing they have forgotten about it or have overcome it. It nests deep within a person’s soul, perched between fragile...
View ArticlePoetics of Postmodernism in Kurt Vonnegut
Literature Review Postmodernism is dominant philosophical approach that questions and rejects the fundamental totality of human thought and homogeneous way of perceiving the outer reality of the world....
View ArticleThe Twisted Love within Cat’s Cradle
Love. A simple yet ever so complicated emotion. How can an emotion that supposedly brings about such happiness and joy also bring about some of the worst characteristics of today’s world and lead to...
View ArticleOrganized Religion in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
“See the cat? See the cradle?” retorts the midget Newt in an attempt to explain the inspiration for a grotesque and confounding painting of his. This singular quote is the namesake for Kurt Vonnegut’s...
View ArticlePlayer Piano by Kurt Vonnegut: Machines Replacing Humans
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut is a huge example of technology taking over human beings. This book was published in 1952 but till this day technology is becoming more advanced and is controlling humans....
View ArticleHope And Tragedy: Ideas Of Evolution In The Imagination Of Two Popular...
Robert Louis Stevenson and Kurt Vonnegut use ideas of evolution to imagine — respectively — horrific and satiric future scenarios of humanity. Stevenson’s secondary intent is to use Edward Hyde in...
View ArticleHuman Condition in Cat’s Cradle
Understanding ourselves and the surroundings that shape us is no small feat. Sci-fi novels time and time again have attempted to address such topics by manipulating and distorting the future in a...
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut Jr. – Life, Satirical Novels, and Dark Humor
Born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. grew up to become a prolific writer, publishing 14 novels, 81 articles and essays, 123 stories, one poem, and seven plays (Reed...
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