"Slaughterhouse Five"

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This paper contends that French philosopher, Michael Foucault's post-structuralist theory uncovers a new dimension of power and domination in modern culture and presents a new literary criticism, which is observed throughout Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five". The paper employs Foucauldian criticism to Vonnegut's book and illustrates the significant and subversive relationship between knowledge and power.

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"Theories about modern society have been significantly influenced by the study of the great French thinker, Michael Foucault. One of his fundamental studies examines modern power systems, of which his most important premise analyzes the relationship between power and knowledge. Foucault introduces to society power's mechanisms and wants us to know how power works on us. He believes modern power is veiled, ubiquitous, and subversive, thus power's efficient operation."

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