Category: Kurt Vonnegut

There are many reasons as to why it is possible that Kurt Vonnegut’s intention in the novel Slaughterhouse Five was to portray Billy Pilgrim as a Christ-like figure even though we will never truly know. Vonnegut uses many literary devices to make the reader question Billys purpose. The first instance of Vonnegut representing Billy as…

The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut and The Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley are two different literary works that are similar but as well have differences. Although the two jobs are different in the form where one is a story, and the other is a poem, the authors have Applied different literacy skills,…

For centuries war has been romanticized as a heroic battle between a purely good side and the evil side. Incredible heroes fight against evil and give peace back to the good. The good and innocent all live peacefully afterwards while the evil are punished and forced to take responsibility for the war that they inevitably…

Kurt Vonneguts interpretations of religion throughout his book talks about his way of what the right practice of religion might be, as expressed in Cats Cradle, the primary source of religion is bokononism. The novel takes place in a fictitious island called San Lorenzo, the inhabitants there foresee the faith if bokononism as their only…

In 2 B R O 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut, the writer presents a technology fiction tale that informs us things that people feared at that time it was created: overpopulation, battle, plague, and poverty. Then provides a darkish solution to resolve these problems. Furthermore, his sad history affected just how he views the world…

After the second World War, America solidified and extended its spot as a world superpower. Industry was booming come up, modern political reforms started to take place, and technology was skyrocketing. Everything was on the up. However, estimates range that 50 million – 80 million people died in the war. How could so many losses…

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. gave us a glance in Harrison Bergeron of the United States in the year 2081. The United States had become a dystopian nation, where everyone was considered equal before God and the law. The citizens were physically altered, so all of them have the same ability and strength. They are required to…

In the novel, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut to emphasize the horrific effects war can have on the health of a person internally and externally. When going through tough times Billy Pilgrim in the novel demonstrates these characteristics on how he has been affected mentally from the war. War can affect the mental state of an…

Throughout the novel Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses the phrase so it goes. At times used tragically, at other times absurdly, this phrase, repeated more than 100 times, comes to represent the occurrence of death in the novel. As the phrase follows every mention of death, it conveys a sense of fatalism during wartime. The…

In Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five, we see how the use of motifs is used to demonstrate the devastating effect that the war has. It is revealed throughout the novel using the motifs so it goes, poo-tee-weet, and mustard gas and roses. From early on in the novel all the way to the end, so it goes…